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by i80and 365 days ago
Is this a bit?
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Absolutely not. See my response to your sibling comment. Choosy nerds choose "GIF".
Unfortunately for your crusade, the soft-G pronunciation has essentially been typo-squatted since before typo-squatting was a thing.

https://file.org/extension/jif

https://fileinfo.com/extension/jiff

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4rirr8/til_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_files