Tom is a name for a male animal.

“Bot” and “both” may be more your style. Or, to stick with g, “gin” has a soft g while “gink” has a hard g.

Tom and tomb

And I agree, I’ll remove it.

It’s well documented going all the way back to 1987 when the format was first coined that it was always a soft g. Compuserve had it in their official memos. An early gif had the pronunciation embedded as a comment in its code. Witnesses attested that the creator would go around the office saying, “Choosy developers use gif,” a play on “Choosy moms choose Jiff.”

No, Carl. Acronyms are not pronounced based on the origin words of the letters that make them up. That is a fake rule made up by people just so they could justify pronouncing “gif” wrong.

See also:

• scuba
• radar
• sonar
• NASA
• NATO

We don’t pronounced words by what other words they contain. “Americano” is not “American+o.” “Fare” is not “far+e.”

For some reason, the hard G advocates for “gif” seem to make up fake language rules to justify pronouncing it wrong.