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369548684892826 ◴[25 Jun 25 12:06 UTC] No.44376322[source]▶
A fun fact about PNG, the correct pronunciation is defined in the specification

> PNG is pronounced “ping”

See the end of Section 1 [0]

0: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.pdf

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1. gred ◴[25 Jun 25 12:10 UTC] No.44376360[source]▶
That makes two image format names which I will refuse to pronounce correctly (the other being GIF [1]).

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif

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2. cmiller1 ◴[25 Jun 25 13:16 UTC] No.44376984[source]▶
How do you pronounce PNG?
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3. gred ◴[25 Jun 25 13:27 UTC] No.44377090[source]▶
Pee En Gee
4. illiac786 ◴[25 Jun 25 13:36 UTC] No.44377193[source]▶
P&G, stands for Pee & Gloat.
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5. gred ◴[25 Jun 25 14:02 UTC] No.44377455{3}[source]▶
Portable & Graphical
6. NoMoreNicksLeft ◴[25 Jun 25 14:33 UTC] No.44377801[source]▶
"Pong". Hate me, I don't care.
7. kristopolous ◴[25 Jun 25 14:47 UTC] No.44377976[source]▶
I used to call them Nogs claiming the P was silent.

People believed me. Still funny.

8. ziml77 ◴[25 Jun 25 15:33 UTC] No.44378487[source]▶
The only logic I ever hear for using a hard G is because that's how Graphics is said. Yet I never hear people saying jay-feg.
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9. gred ◴[25 Jun 25 16:11 UTC] No.44378920[source]▶
Also "gift".
10. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 10:21 UTC] No.44385943[source]▶
As with all other pronunciations the real reason is because it sounds better (more correct) to most people.