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When you hear someone pronounce GIF as 'JIF (i.imgur.com)
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[–] Kerrigor@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago (33 children)
  • Geography
  • Geology
  • Giraffe
  • Generous

Just a few examples that come to mind. Additionally, the pronunciation of the individual words included in an acronym DOES NOT determine the pronunciation of that acronym. See SCUBA as an example.

[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For your SCUBA example, is it the U you're talking about?

Underwater vs oonderwater?

Scuhba vs Scooba?

[–] DeathByMagikarp@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

Also, the A stands for Apparatus, so it should be scuhbah since it's Apparatus, not uhpparatus

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