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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The Great Vi Controversy
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.171257.6214@mccc.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 89 17:12:57 GMT
References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <49631@oliveb.olivetti.com> <2511@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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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.

A related question is on pronounciation of the "i".  Is it "eye" or "ee"?
I.e., jee-ga or jeye-ga, pee-co or peye-co??
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