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[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Graphics Interchange Format. Graphics. Not Jraphics.

[–] ren@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That’s not how acronyms as words works. AIDS isn’t pronounced “Uh-ids” like the A in acquired.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Letters are pronounced differently in acronyms than in the original words all the time. Take POTUS, for example; the O and U are not the sounds in "of" or "United".

[–] Lizardking27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean you guys haven't been saying "puh-thyoos" all this time?