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From: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The Great Vi Controversy
Message-ID: <312@6sigma.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 23:39:12 GMT
References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <49631@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Reply-To: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <49631@oliveb.olivetti.com> swirsky@olivee.olivetti.com (Robert Swirsky) writes:
|> A number of people pointed out that the vi manual says vee-eye is correct.
|Perhaps a better way to tell a wizard is from the way he/she pronounces
|"gigabyte." If a person pronounces it with a *soft* "g" (as in gigantic)
|that person knows what he/she's talking about.
|Every dictionary in the universe says that a soft g is preferred/correct.

Actually, my Alpha Centauran dictionary says it's pronounced [&@)-3#~y,
but then what do those Alpha Centaurans know anyways? :-)
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sigma.UUCP