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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The Great Vi Controversy
Message-ID: <1989Oct28.141236.5674@twwells.com>
Date: 28 Oct 89 14:12:36 GMT
References: <929@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <49631@oliveb.olivetti.com>
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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.

Not true. Webster's Ninth Collegiate says that the giga- prefix
is pronounced both ways.

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