en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Main_pageWikipedia, the free encyclopedia The pronunciation of GIF has been disputed since the 1990s. GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, is popularly pronounced in English as a one-syllable word.. The most common pronunciations in English are / dʒ ɪ f / (with a soft g as in gin) and / ɡ ɪ f / (with a hard g as in gift), differing in the phoneme represented by the lette