Is it pronounced "gibs" or "jibs"?

[magicsofa]

5 hours ago, Stupid Bunny said:

I’ve been pronouncing it like “heebs” but I don’t see an option for that :<

 

yibs

[nicolas monti]

/d͡ʒɪb/

[DJVCardMaster]

It's Jibs, but gif is still Gif.

EDIT: you are still in time to switch for an easier way if you copy Spanish, which uses G sound for g's before consonants and A,O,U, and then 'Kh' sound when it is before E, I. Replacing Kh for J.

Edited July 31, 2023 by DJVCardMaster

[dasho]

6 hours ago, Stupid Bunny said:

I’ve been pronouncing it like “heebs” but I don’t see an option for that :<

 

This post is outstanding for all the wrong reasons

[princetontiger]

gibs

[SealSpace]

I always pronounced it as "gibs" in my head and never "jibs". Especially whenever I heard the term "instagib" in the context of the Samsara mod.

 

Franky, that pronunciation rolls off the tongue a bit better and easier for me lol. I know this may be an unpopular take, but "jibs" kinda doesn't have the same punch or weight to it, in fact, it sounds a bit lame by comparison.

[Remilia Scarlet]

I know it's a soft G, but I continue to pronounce it with a hard G, and probably always will.  I pronounce "giblets" with a hard G, too.

 

Relevant:

 

Edited July 31, 2023 by Remilia Scarlet

[jmpt16]

16 minutes ago, Remilia Scarlet said:

I know it's a soft G, but I continue to pronounce it with a hard G, and probably always will.  I pronounce "giblets" with a hard G, too.

can't say "gibs" is wrong if you mispronounce "giblets" 

[Murdoch]

4 hours ago, ducon said:

What about Gibson guitars?

 

English is goofy.

[Bauul]

1 hour ago, Remilia Scarlet said:

I know it's a soft G, but I continue to pronounce it with a hard G, and probably always will.  I pronounce "giblets" with a hard G, too.

 

Relevant:

 

 

Notably at 2:40 Tom pronounces "gib" with a soft G in this video.

[Individualised]

10 hours ago, Rudolph said:

No, that is not it either. I have always pronounced it like "decent", but it might also be pronounced like "day-scent".

 

@LoreCaco37 Well, then that ruins the "Jimmy Gibbs" pun in Left 4 Dead 2. :S

You have to remember that a) "decent" is already a word in English with a different pronunciation and b) the pronunciation of "i" in English is unlike most other languages. So ironically the word "decent" is pronounced with what would be an "i" in other languages.

 

For what it's worth, I've heard some people pronounce giblet with a hard G, mainly people from certain parts of the USA. If it's a dialectal thing then both pronunciations are correct and that's just how it is.

Edited July 31, 2023 by Individualised

[LadyMistDragon]

2 hours ago, Remilia Scarlet said:

I know it's a soft G, but I continue to pronounce it with a hard G, and probably always will.  I pronounce "giblets" with a hard G, too.

 

Relevant:

 

 

Yeah, because I never heard otherwise for years. I'm just shaking my head at all these heretics who think jjjjj-jibsss is in any way a correct pronounciation for the collection of guts that spills out all across the floor upon death. Although that also means we're outnumbered in our belief and........runs.

[Herr Dethnout]

Just now, Rudolph said:

Does it mean we should start saying Mel/William "Jibson"? :P

I pronounce it as Jibson anyways.

But I pronounce "Gibby" as is. lol

Edited August 1, 2023 by Herr Dethnout

[Kyka]

15 hours ago, leejacksonaudio said:

It is pronounced with a soft g, as in the word "giblets." This comes straight from the ROTT Development Team, of which I was a peripheral part.

 

This leads me to casually wonder about the correct pronunciation of the word "Ludicrous." If the ROTT development team has any thoughts, I would love to hear them. :)

 

On topic, as @LadyMistDragon has pointed out, seeing a word written in a book/magazine/online, and never actually hearing anyone say the word has lead me to a number of wrong assumptions about word pronunciation. The best example was when I was a child, my mum used to get a cooking/house magazine called "Golden Circle." (Named after a brand or pineapple.) Now as a kid, using my vast brain, I worked out that circle was pronounced "Cerise". It took my mum some work to convince me otherwise. Yeah I was a kid. Don't @ me. :D

Edited August 1, 2023 by Kyka

[LuzRoja29]

yibs

[orffen]

15 hours ago, leejacksonaudio said:

It is pronounced with a soft g, as in the word "giblets." This comes straight from the ROTT Development Team, of which I was a peripheral part.

 

"Peripheral" must be modesty. The music in ROTT is amazing. Thank you!

[Rudolph]

12 hours ago, Individualised said:

You have to remember that a) "decent" is already a word in English with a different pronunciation and b) the pronunciation of "i" in English is unlike most other languages. So ironically the word "decent" is pronounced with what would be an "i" in other languages.

I am aware of both those things.

 

Personally, I have always pronounced the game's title like "decent" and Descent II's Redbook soundtrack even features a track named "Are You Descent" (which is a pun on "are you decent"), but I did hear the word "descent" pronounced "day-scent" - by a British person - and as such I am not really sure what is the correct pronounciation.

Edited August 1, 2023 by Rudolph

[Naarok0fkor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdAWjopfOrI&amp;ab_channel=NoBSClips

 

[OniriA]

I always said it with a hard "G" and even after learning its the soft g, it still sound better with the hard g.

 

Plus I've been already used to saying it that way for many years, besides...Bitch I don't care about grammar rules for gaming terms.

Gtfo here with that shit!

Edited August 1, 2023 by OniriA

[Dragonfly]

10 hours ago, OniriA said:

gaming terms

 

Ah yes, gaming terms.

[Daytime Waitress]

We've got a former DIP co-conspirator in here and none of you cowards are asking the real questions:

 

Spoiler

Is it Lorel-"ee" or Lore-"lie"?

 

[esselfortium]

I say gib with a hard G (the incorrect way) and gif with a soft G (the correct way).

[leejacksonaudio]

1 hour ago, Daytime Waitress said:

Is it Lorel-"ee" or Lore-"lie"?

It's Lore-"lie."

[QuaketallicA]

Huh. I always thought it was a hard 'g.' Gibs and Gibbitude. I can't imagine using the soft 'g' sound. Feels just weird.

 

Kind of like carbine (eye-n) vs carbine (bean). Apparently the latter is more correct, but I'm still more comfortable using the former.

[Rudolph]

1 hour ago, leejacksonaudio said:

It's Lore-"lie."

L I E S ! ! !

 

^{I have always assumed it was "Lore-ay-lay". :P}

[Individualised]

On 8/1/2023 at 12:31 PM, Rudolph said:

I am aware of both those things.

 

Personally, I have always pronounced the game's title like "decent" and Descent II's Redbook soundtrack even features a track named "Are You Descent" (which is a pun on "are you decent"), but I did hear the word "descent" pronounced "day-scent" - by a British person - and as such I am not really sure what is the correct pronounciation.

It's dialectal. You can pronounce "descent" in many ways - one of them is identical to how "decent" is read (so without the "e" substituted for a schwa) but with the emphasis placed on the second syllable rather than the first. There may be correct standard pronunciations for both Received Pronunciation (standard British English) and General American (standard American English), but because English speakers don't like standardisation (at least vocally - the Internet has made the standardisation of English over text unavoidable, where American phrases are even preferred by British speakers) no one will agree on one correct pronunciation :P Hence why this discussion even started in the first place.

Edited August 3, 2023 by Individualised

[G19Doom]

Better question is it pronounced Wolfenstein or Wolfenstein? Or is it Wolfenstein? 

Spoiler

Wolfensteyen, Wolfensteen, or Volfensteyen?

 

[ducon]

Volfennshtaïne (it’s German).

Edited August 3, 2023 by ducon

[bsharp]

simple. the 'g' in 'gibs' is pronounced like the 'g' in 'garage'.
hope this clears this up

[Astar]

I use both depending on my mood, lol