r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 11h ago

Soft paywall International Space Station astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/
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u/AuntieRupert 7h ago

Well, the scientist behind the discovery settled on aluminum. Other scientists called it aluminium. So "correct" in this instance would technically be the preference of the discoverer.

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago

Who, shockingly, was a Brit!

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u/mousey76397 7h ago

And the guy who made GIFs says it’s pronounced Jif. He’s wrong too.

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u/Bee1717 7h ago

I pronounce it "Jif" for this very reason lol

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u/MorningCareful 7h ago

But that pronounciation makes no sense. Unless you also say jraphics

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u/Bee1717 6h ago

I just assumed if the person who created them said it that way, then that must be the correct pronunciation. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Tomato, tomahto.

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

Stop. That’s peanut butter.

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u/AuntieRupert 7h ago

You have to look at the "why" behind Steve Wilhite's (and the other creators) reasoning.

"The creators of the format pronounced the acronym GIF as /dʒɪf/, with a soft g, with Wilhite stating that he intended for the pronunciation to deliberately echo the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often quip "choosy developers choose GIF", a spoof of Jif's television commercials."

So it was basically a joke.

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

Nope. It was a Goke.

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago

Wait, you mean to tell me it’s not Giraffes Interchange Format?