I think I ’m function to puke a Tumblr ’s worth of emotions because GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary ’s 2012 word of the year . ZOMG !
BetaBeatreportsthat GIF beat out such desirable contender as “ YOLO , ” “ Higgs boson , ” and “ Super PAC ” to take this year ’s crown . In a assertion , Oxford told Beta Beat :
The GIF has evolved from a medium for pop - cultural meme into a tool with serious applications including research and journalism , and its lexical identity is transmute to keep yard .
But on-key to its stodgy identity element , the dictionary’sdefinition is still boooooooring :
GIF
Pronunciation : /jif , gif/
noun
Computing ( trademark in the UK ) a lossless format for compact epitome files .
apparently , this is an uncompleted definition that does n’t include any of that widely boom “ lexical identity . ” Oxford does n’t even take a base on whether it ’s pronounced JIF or GIF . Technically , either is right .
https://gizmodo.com/how-the-hell-do-you-pronounce-gif-anyway-5749451
But that ’s just wrong . It ca n’t be both . amount on , Oxford , you ’re suppose to be an authority ! You cognize what , it does n’t matter what the dictionary says . allot to my learning ability — and the Gizmodo dash guide — it ’s pronounced with a grueling G.
As in , get that jif out of my face , or you ’re going to make me feel like this :
[ BetaBeat ]
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