Time to make you rething your current verbiage!
How do you say these words?:
Hopfully this gets through to you. One-syllable words that start with G have a hard G.
Furthermore, “gift” is the closest word to GIF, and it has a hard G. To pronounce GIF, just say “gift” without the “t”.
GIF is an acronym for "Graphic Interchange Format". In your head you just said "Graphic" and not "Japhic"...
Enough said.
Even Jif peanut butter has gotten involved! Stating there is only one Jif.
Words are spelled differently for a reason you cannot deny that!