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I know there isn’t a correct way to pronounce gif. And its an abbreviation.
There are two ways to pronounce it

1. Hard G ( as in gift)




2. Soft G( as in giraffe)

This is a classic example of toe-ma-toe vs toe-mah-toe.
This is a question. This is a bit opinion based.You are free to downvote this post. But i request you to comment why you are downvoting this post.


I read this article.

There are two common ways to pronounce this abbreviation.

1. Gif as an gift.
   
   


2. Gif ( jif) as giraffe
   
   

I am still confused.

Different people pronounce it different way.


I have two following questions

1. Why is there no standard way pronounce it?

2. Why does its creator use different way to pronounce it( he prefers gif as in giraffe)

Some users may say that this question has already been answered by (Deciding pronunciation of new words that don't obey natural rules of a language).
But the above does not appear in the search results directly. Indeed, the title and the specifics are different.
And there is general confusion due to videos and articles such as this YouTube clip.

Which one should I use? Or Can I use both?
I have already read the following articles.

Links:

1. Pronunciation according to OLD
   
   


2. Wikipedia's article



3. Stackexchange's article
   Deciding pronunciation of new words that don't obey natural rules of a language)




4. Pronouncing acronyms

People who have seen a lot of computing language disputes, like the inventor of the sudo command, tend to be agnostic and not really care that much about how to say things, so long as it isn't confusing. I think that's the educated position to take. I use #1 out of habit, tradition, and since that's how the words in the file extension would be sounded out. Also there is a .jif format which predates gif. And Jif is a peanut butter, which is not obviously confusing, but better safe than sorry if you're part of the generation whose parents were confused by terms like "mouse."

It is pronounced 'Jif'.

Would you believe there is even a web page devoted to the pronunciation?!?!

http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/ The GIF Pronunciation Page

The documentation for version 8.33 even states:

"The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), pronounced "JIF", was designed by CompuServe and the official specification released in June of 1987."

Having said all of that, depending on who I am talking to I refer to it with a hard 'gee' sound. I think you could make yourself sound like a bit of a 'gerk' referring to it with a soft 'juh' sound. :-)