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- From: douglas@cs.scarolina.edu (David Douglas)
- Subject: Re: G-I-F pronunciation
- Message-ID: <douglas.724978192@fig.cs.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <1gdsofINN4hs@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec17.101231.1@tesla.njit.edu>
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:49:52 GMT
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- kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:
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- >In article <1gdsofINN4hs@agate.berkeley.edu>, kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller) writes:
- >> A friend and I have a little wager, that I would like to get settled before
- >> the end of the semester. How is G-I-F pronounced? Gif as in "Gift" without
- >> the "t" or "Jif" as in the peanut butter?
- >>
- >> Any help is greatly appreciated! I want to collect my $5!
- >>
- >> Kevin
- >> kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu
- >>
- >> PS...Please respond through E-mail, as I don't regularly read this sub.
- >Well, for starters, read the documentation that comes with cshow, the true
- >gif viewer. It tells you that it's pronounced "Jif" as in the peanut butter.
- >Which one did you think it was ;-)
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- >--
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- >Kirk Membry "Our Age is the Age of Industry"
- > - Alexander Rodchenko
- >kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu kpm8447@teak.njit.edu
- >kmembry@andromeda.rutgers.edu kpm8447@maple.njit.edu
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- Oh yeah -- and in the version _I_ retrieved, there's a GIF89a (?) file
- (Bob Berry?) that tells you EXACTLY how it's pronounced, too! ;-)
-
- David Douglas
- douglas@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu
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