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As soon as someone wants to take a hard stance on it it makes me want to switch. I don't know why. I typically said Jiff (like the PB) but with this site's attitude I'm going to start saying GIFT (with no T) again.

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Good. My hard stance is that you must say it like GIFT. ;)

Welcome to the resistance!

I've found more people insist that it if hard 'g' like gift. Usually going with the 'gift' argument, or that 'graphics' also has a hard 'g' -- both addressed in this article.

Oh, and tabs are both better than spaces and make more sense.

Now there's an idea. What's the correlation between those who pronounce hard-g/soft-g and those who prefer tabs/spaces? I wonder what this could say about a split between old and new programming culture. If anything.

Probably not.

Similarly, when someone wants to take the opposite stance of a well reasoned stance for reasons unrelated to the stance itself (feelings, etc.), I tend to want to take the stance of the original to counter the person taking the opposite stance. I'm going to start staying GIF (like JIF) again.

Now I don’t know what to do, thanks.

Let me take this opportunity to break a lance for randomly choosing either of the two, even throughout a conversation. I do it for maximum confusion, or out of a genuine lack of caring, take your pick.

Probably because I was a Peter Pan kid but I loathed the Jiff commercials. No joke I was angry about the slogan because I loved my mom and Peter Pan PB.

I'm going to keep calling it GIFT (with no T) because no one has ever misunderstood me. And I'm not about to start putting Giff in my PB sandwiches. Jiff or GIF is also such a small thing. Like alu-mi-nium or alu-mi-ni-um perhaps?

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