• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It isn’t rigid.

    The soft G with the following i is common. There are exceptions to that rule, so it really isn’t always a rule.

    Also, GIF is an initialism, and an initialism pronounced as a word becomes an acronym. I really don’t want to debate whether an acronym has to obey “real” word rules.