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The guy who created gif says jif, so that one, for starters. I'm sure you say CD-ROM in a way that rhymes with rom-com (side note, rom is wrongly a short O here too) with a short O, yet ROM stands for Read Only Memory. Or do you say See Dee Rome? Maybe with a Spanish background, but not English. Similar with PIN, I for identification but no one says pine. GIMP photo software stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Whether you say Gee Enn Yoo or GNU, GIMP isn't said a way that matches. The G in GLaDOS is for genetic. PAL (TV) is for Phase Alternating Line. PHAT, pretty hot and attractive. 50% of any time a Q is involved.
I'm not going to believe a troll. He's just seeing if he get away with fucking with people
Get down from your giant giraffe and ride a high horse like everyone else. Or do you say "high" with a "g" like "gift"?
The exceptions likely have etymological explanations. Note that they're exceptions -- the norm is that word-initial G make a G sound and not a J sound.
When we steal a word and its spelling from another language, that's how we get exceptions.
When someone invents a word and changes the rules, that's how we spot a troll.
So what you're saying is the creator of a word can define its pronunciation that supercedes the current language's rules?
French doesn't have a creator
French isn't naturally occurring