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My favorite is GIF cause we all agree how it's pronounced, no confusion there. If you think it's said the other way you are wrong and very stupid.
Jraphical interchange format
The way the original words was pronounced doesn't matter, or we'd pronounce "LASER" as "lah-seer".
The peanut butter came first, is how I see it. Seniority and the feature of the image being easily shared (or GIFted) provide all the reasons I need for how I say it.
WTF are you talking about Jesse?
Choosy moms choose GIF
I fucking hate the stupid GIF / JIF debate. It's GIF!
You mean the GIF / GHIF debate. I agree, it flies in the face of common sense to say it the wrong way.
What the heck is ghif? GH often makes no sound, or an f sound, but is almost never at the start of a word.
ghost
aghast
ghetto
ghoul
gherkin
ghee
"Almost never" but the words where it is are common enough everyone knows how to say it.
I like how you say "ghee" is a common word
London, UK. Ghee is an everyday word. So is Bombay Aloo.
Dang. As an Indian-American, I rarely hear non-Indians say "ghee," and the few times I do on YouTube videos, it's always "ghee butter."
I'm a pasty, old, white man and even I've got a half-full can of ghee in the fridge. I know you don't have to keep it in the fridge but I'm short of cupboard space.
Allow me to clarify...
Shut up
It is in my house!
Cook more lol. It is common if you like making food!
For non-Indian food, I've seen coconut and olive oil used, almost never ghee.
Ghee actually uses a different sound than "ghost", but we don't have that sound in English. It's like saying that "ts" makes an "s" sound because of the word tsunami.
So is that all of the gh words? Because that's a very small list, lol
Like OP said, very few words start with GH. My point is that the few words that do are very common and familiar.
Gif
Gift
Gifford
Giraffe
Giant
Gist
If anyone can come up with a word that starts with GIF that uses the J sound I'd be happy to learn what it is, but all the GIF words I can think of use the G sound.