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From: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The Great Vi Controversy
Message-ID: <291@orchid.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Oct 89 09:57:48 GMT
References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <49631@oliveb.olivetti.com> <2511@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
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In article <2511@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <49631@oliveb.olivetti.com>, swirsky@olivee.olivetti.com (Robert Swirsky) writes:
>[says that wizards pronounce "gigabyte" with a soft g"]
>> Every dictionary in the universe says that a soft g is preferred/correct.
>
>The Concise Oxford says that both hard and soft are allowed.
>
>Never occurred to me that gamma-iota-gamma-alpha might come across with a
>soft g; must keep an ear out for it and maybe I'll hear it some day.

The Colins English (2nd ed) says hard g, as in 'gig'.

- RC

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