In looking back over 2024 I am compelled to note that in May of this year John Romero, he of making Doom and helping cement the very genre of the first person shooter fame, said that "gib" is pronounced with a "soft 'g'" like in "giblets." Giblets, of course, being the little chunks of people that models would explode into in old first-person shooters when exploded by like, a rocket launcher, or a lightning gun, or whatever. An FPS term now so old that you might play a lot of FPS and not even recognize it.
This caused my colleague Harvey Randall some slight distress. "Mighty allfather of FPS games and co-creator of Doom John Romero decrees that 'gib' is pronounced in the most upsetting way possible," said Mr. Randall in an article at the time.
