The last name "Goto" in this case is actually read Gotou (ごとう), but romanization methods are their own flamewar. There's much less emphasis put on the "go" part than the "tou", so pronunciation doesn't actually sound anything like the English word "goto" at all.
Imagine the spanish word gato. Now elongate the "to", and change the ga to go, and you're close.
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The last name "Goto" in this case is actually read Gotou (ごとう), but romanization methods are their own flamewar. There's much less emphasis put on the "go" part than the "tou", so pronunciation doesn't actually sound anything like the English word "goto" at all.
Imagine the spanish word gato. Now elongate the "to", and change the ga to go, and you're close.
TBF, do we actually know how goto the statement was intended to be pronounced?
It's like saying Bob Gif is pronounced with a J so sounds nothing like the file format.....
Yes, there is only one reasonable pronunciation of the Fortran code word which is an amalgam of the English words "go to".
GIF is an initialism, with no comparable basis.
You mean, it sounds exactly like the file format...