It didn't require the imprimatur of The New York Times to resolve the GIF pronunciation debate, nor will the paper's assertion on Tuesday actually resolve it. But the war is won, even if the battle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is a big debate on the proper pronunciation. When you want to ask someone if they liked the GIF that you sent, how do you ...

It might be one of the biggest debates of the digital age — how in all of cyberspace are we supposed to pronounce “GIF?” Since the creation of the animated loop now an essential part of meme culture, ...

Along with whether or not Al Gore invented the Internet, figuring out the correct pronunciation of GIF is one of the earliest questions of the Internet. I grew up believing it was hard-G GIF. Most ...

How do you pronounce GIF? Well today, it feels like The Internet—yeah, all of it—is about to read the New York Times the riot act over that very question. And so on. Note that some of them are taking ...

Forget the great potato pronunciation debate — in the internet age, it’s all about GIF. Just when the world thought that riddle was solved — that GIF, short for graphics interchange format, should be ...

How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication. But why are we so confused? Why is each ...

If it weren’t for Andy Milonakis tweeting that “choosy web designers choose GIF,” I’d never be able to remember how to pronounce the damned file extension. Are Andy and I really pronouncing it ...

And so on. But the thing is? The Times is right. The first GIF I ever made, which, lamentably, isn't currently online, was of breakdancers. (It was sort of like the image at left, which is from this ...