How do you pronounce "gib"?

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Aethelred

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Poll How do you pronounce "gib"? (151 votes)

[d͡ʒib] — "g" as in "gin" 71%
[gib] — "g" as in "get" 29%

I've always pronounced it [gib], based on the way I pronounce "giblets," which I assume the word comes from, but I see that that word is also pronounced differently in different areas.

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Gib as in giblets cause it's literally a shortened version of it.

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guy-b

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G as in "gif."

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Gib is short for giblet. People can be super dumb when it comes to hard vs soft g.

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I pronounce it "gib". Who the fuck says "gib"?

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I pronounce it incorrectly. They say you should respect people who mispronounce words because they learned them by reading? Well you should respect people who mispronounce words because they, at age eight, knew enough to not eat entrails.

As it happens, the soft G conveys fleshy chunks better than the hard G any day.

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Jib

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Like giblets.

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I just use the word "gore", how about that?

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#13  Edited By BoOzak

@mlarrabee said:

I pronounce it incorrectly. They say you should respect people who mispronounce words because they learned them by reading? Well you should respect people who mispronounce words because they, at age eight, knew enough to not eat entrails.

As it happens, the soft G conveys fleshy chunks better than the hard G any day.

Yeah, it just sounds better that way.

EDIT: I fucked up, gib not jib.

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#14  Edited By DharmaBum

The opposite way I pronounce gif.

gib gif
gib gif

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I pronounce it "gib". Who the fuck says "gib"?

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#16  Edited By JohnLocke

@stonyman65: Jib is also how I would pronounce it. Whether that is correct or not I do not know.

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#17  Edited By monkeyking1969

Like giblets....literally.

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whoops, i voted wrong. gib like get. insta-gib, not insta-jib, tyvm

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@alexw00d:

That may be the case and yet you're still wrong.

On a serious note, who cares.

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Jib because it's literally short for giblets.

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I pronounce it the way Brad does, because he holds the ultimate knowledge.

All hail king Brad.

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I pronounce it with a hard g.

Yes, you can make lots of arguments for why you shouldn't do this but my reason is pretty simple: we already have the word 'jib' and a standard pronunciation for that (on a boat or a camera/film set) so why not make this new word we've got something you can instantly understand I'm using by how I pronounce it.