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He made the format, not English.
Ya and in English, we pronounce things like giant, giraffe, gin, etc. with a "j" sound.
Find me a closer English word than "Gift" that uses a J sound for the G
Gin
English doesn't work that way. Man is the closest work to woman. Doesn't mean you pronounce the "m" "a" "n" in the two words the same way.
English works like all languages. It's organic and full of exceptions. New words pop up, old ones die, pronunciations change and differ between similar words.
Most people chose to say gif like gift. One person doesn't get to change it just because of who they are. Otherwise celebrities can start changing things.
This is all like the Mean Girls scene where the girl was trying to make "fetch" happen and the other girl shot her down.
Nobody made english, nor is a language static. It is an everchanging result of millions of people using and evolving it.
A language that doesn't change is dead, like latin is. So any rule of how something is supposed to be in a language is subject to time and place, but never absolute.
That's my point. If everyone pronounces a word a certain way, THAT is its correct pronunciation. The first person to say a thing doesn't get to tell everyone else they're wrong.
Everyone started using the word "literally" to mean figuratively, so the official definition changed to mean either or.
Everyone says GIF similar to gift, then that's the proper pronunciation. Creator has no say.