Poll: Hard 'g' or soft 'g?'

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I use a hard ‘g’ because otherwise it’ll get confused with peanut butter:
 
Not unlike Gillian Welch, the folk singer/songwriter, who pronounces her own name with a hard G.

A friend once scolded me for pronouncing it Jillian. Her not-very-helpful explanation was “It’s spelled with a G, not J.”

Right. Just like Gina and Giselle.

 
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Since the ‘g’ in gif stands for ‘graphics,’ it makes sense to use a hard ‘g.’
 
Great question. I say a hard G as in git, giggle, gimp, gift, gill (the one a fish breathes with).

Cool link, by the way. I wonder how many sheets Bugs and Daffy have up on that tree. I’ve been watching them for 12 hours now, they’re still not finished. Crazy stuff.
 
In my head I hear it with a hard G. But it is my understanding that it should be a soft G. in reality, I’m not sure I’ve ever said the word out loud. As long as I stick to readable media I guess I won’t upset anyone.
 
I pronounce it “Jiff”

I buy skippy so I don’t mix it up with peanut butter. 😉
 
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SMHW said:
But it is my understanding that it should be a soft G.
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To that I say the people who created the word are wrong about its pronunciation.

I’m also the kind of guy who will pronounce the dragon’s name in The Hobbit as “Smog.”
 
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SMHW:
But it is my understanding that it should be a soft G.
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To that I say the people who created the word are wrong about its pronunciation.
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It never made sense to me to create an acronym where the first word begins with a hard “G” and then pronounce the acronym with a soft “G”, So I actually agree with you.
 
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Trader Joe’s peanut butter isn’t bad. What about Peter Pan peanut butter?
 
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Dang it, I didn’t read the question right, hard g. I thought it was asking how I pronounce gel. Hard g, as that’s how the person that created them said it’s pronounced.
 
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