For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    2 months ago

    It IS spelled that way

    The inventor of the GIF pronounces it with a soft G

    Geoffrey

    Giraffe

    Gymnasium

    There are plenty of examples of that pronunciation

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      2 months ago

      all of the words you listed that use a soft g are loanwords from other languages (pretty sure they’re all french) soooo…yeah. no wonder those have different pronunciation.

      when you look at anglo-saxon words the difference becomes clear:

      • gift
      • graveyard
      • ground
      • gay

      all hard g’s.

      mixing up languages is the common denominator here.

      the G in GIF stands for graphical, neither english nor french in origin, hence the confusion about pronunciation.

      alternatively; English is a terrible mess, and the only “correct” pronunciation is reached through general consensus. if the majority pronounces something a certain way, that’s how it should be pronounced.