On Muttering

[Kuron]

I've been always muttering it as "hwind".

Great minds think alike. 

I was also always too shy to ask whether I'd make a laughing stock of myself if ever caught at doing that by somebody who really knows how it should sound. One item off the long list of questions that must be resolved before I go.

The real fights only happen over how to pronounce GIF, JPG or PNG. ;c)

[Mike Lobanovsky]

In fact, GIF poses no problems. I'm calling it as is, i.e. same as in gift (or Gibson, for that matter ). And I'm almost 100% sure that's correct for English speakers too, of course if there's no native English speaker who would try to persuade me that Gibson should be pronounced as Jibson. (see also below)

PNG is also easy to me. Matter is, Russian speakers tend to pronounce abbreviations as they would sound in Russian transliteration. For example, the English (hehehe) KGB sounds as ke-ge-`be here, where e is like in English bet and g is like in gift. By the same token, PNG is pe-en-`ge to me. I think it resolves to ping or something similar to English speakers, doesn't it?

JPG is more complicated because there are no equivalents to your J (jey) or G (jee) sounds in either Russian or German that Russians took many technical terms from. So everyone tends to pronounce it as d-zh-`peg here, wherein d is the same as English d and zh is like French j but not as much palatalized. But I'm somewhat unsure how English speakers would tend to resolve this abbreviation. Yet I think this would be the case where jey-pee-jee would fit in perfectly, wouldn't it?

[Kuron]

In fact, GIF poses no problems. I'm calling it as is, i.e. same as in gift (or Gibson, for that matter ). And I'm almost 100% sure that's correct for English speakers too, of course if there's no native English speaker who would try to persuade me that Gibson should be pronounced as Jibson. (see also below)

The "GI" in GIF is pronounced like the "GI" in giraffe.  Which makes it sound exactly like the peanut butter brand, Jif.  "G" words often have a "Ja" (the "a" being short not long) sound to the "G".

PNG is also easy to me. Matter is, Russian speakers tend to pronounce abbreviations as they would sound in Russian transliteration. For example, the English (hehehe) KGB sounds as ke-ge-`be here, where e is like in English bet and g is like in gift. By the same token, PNG is pe-en-`ge to me. I think it resolves to ping or something similar to English speakers, doesn't it?

Ping is the correct pronunciation.  However, I generally pronounce it as you suggest.

JPG is more complicated because there are no equivalents to your J (jey) or G (jee) sounds in either Russian or German that Russians took many technical terms from. So everyone tends to pronounce it as d-zh-`peg here, wherein d is the same as English d and zh is like French j but not as much palatalized. But I'm somewhat unsure how English speakers would tend to resolve this abbreviation. Yet I think this would be the case where jey-pee-jee would fit in perfectly, wouldn't it?

The correct pronunciation is "Jay-Peg".  However, I generally pronounce it as you suggest.

[Charles Pegge]

JayPeg - Stallion

[Mike Lobanovsky]

The Urban Dictionary also says that JPEG may constitute a part of a girl's name.

Cf. My girlfriend's name ends in .jpeg.