So, the top two words on the list right now are “gyro” and “gif”.<p>The problem with trusting anyone’s pronunciation of the former is that the word actually comes to English from the Greek language, so what we should really do is require pronunciations only from Greek speakers. But what credentials are required for speakers? What credentials are provided?<p>For “gif”, this is further complicated by the fact that the man who created the word insists it is pronounced with a soft “g”, like “JIF”. But there are those of us who insist that it should be pronounced with a hard “g”, because the term is an acronym, and “g” comes from the word “graphics”, which has a hard “g”.<p>There’s too much “record whatever people want to say” here and not enough editing and putting the word in context.