How do the 'merkins & other lovely forrins pronounce 'b3ta'?
I mean, apart from the correct way i.e. 'beeta'?

betta?
bayta?

or what?

now that a gif is a jif i'm not sure of anything anymore
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 10:10, 14 replies)

Fuck knows, they can't even pronounce the last letter of the alphabet properly

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 11:10, closed)

I knew a forrin once.
She pronounced it "beeta" but I pronounce it "B 3 T A".
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:46, closed)

I'm with
Be three tea aye
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:53, closed)

b3ti

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 13:03, closed)

Betty?

(lurkylurklurk swings more, Tue 4 Jun 2013, 10:46, closed)

I'm not three one three three seven enough to pronounce it any other way.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:19, closed)

Man, I hate it when people call me an EIEEL

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:28, closed)

I blame aitch four eks zero ars

(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 16:02, closed)

It's all the fault of bleach and peanut butter.
The original .gif was designed as a play on words with Jif, the American brand of peanut butter. Of course, what with Jif being a bathroom cleaner in the UK (before it became Cif), pronouncing .gif with a soft 'g' became a lot less glamorous.
( .Yeti., Mon 3 Jun 2013, 17:08, closed)

I find the whole Jif/Gif thing quite annoying*
since I used to pronounce it "Jif" but was assured that the correct pronunciation was "Gif", since the G was the first letter of Graphics, which has a hard G.

It sounded reasonable to me at the time so I changed, and 20 years later I find out I changed to saying it wrong all this time.

*Yes, I am easily annoyed.
(richardm, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 17:48, closed)

It's pronounced with a hard 'G'
Unless you're more Germanic and pronounce it "yiff".
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 18:14, closed)

I'll join you in being easily annoyed, at least by petty bullshit.
I have never heard one single person pronounce it "jif", so I must admit I got on my high horse when I heard the creator say "It's 'jif' and anyone who says differently is a rotten egg", or something to that effect.
( .Yeti., Mon 3 Jun 2013, 22:06, closed)

Bayta works
Just like the ancient Greeks said it.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 18:26, closed)

Same as Velveeta obviously!
(Benzyl, Tue 4 Jun 2013, 21:54, closed)