Pronunciation of filename extension "*.jpg"

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"JPEG" is the full name of the standard (Joint Photographic Experts Group), but it is .jpg as a file extension.

Either way, "jay-peg."
 

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Thank you for answering my question! :)
 

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I am inconsistent. Sometimes I say "jay-peg" and sometimes "jay-pee-jee".
 

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Teer, instead of sending your thanks in a separate message, just click the Like button, please.
 

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Yet another vote for jay-peg.
 

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Teer, instead of sending your thanks in a separate message, just click the Like button, please.
Teachers could also use the 'like' button as a vote of agreement. I do that often if I have nothing else to add.
 

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I think the last sound here should be /dʒiː/ since it is a voiced consonant, shouldn’t be, please?


More: G, g noun (LETTER) - definition in the British English Dictionary & Thesaurus - Cambridge Dictionaries Online


I don't do the phonetic symbols so I have no idea what yours says. However, when you read "jee" as a word in British English, it is the sound of the spelling of the letter "g". I didn't write "gee" because some people might have thought it was a hard "g" sound, like at the beginning of "game". I wanted to make it clear that it was the same "g" sound as at the beginning of "giraffe".
 

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Teer, instead of sending your thanks in a separate message, just click the Like button, please.
Teachers could also use the 'like' button as a vote of agreement. I do that often if I have nothing else to add.

Unfortunately the 'like' button is not available in the Android app, which is my only way of connecting at the moment.
 
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