Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba!zvs From: zvs@bby.oz (Zev Sero) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: The Great Gigabyte Controversy Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 01:40:53 GMT References: <49631@oliveb.olivetti.com> <15594@puff.UUCP> Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd. Lines: 17 In-reply-to: kschnitz@puff.UUCP's message of 2 Nov 89 20:51:27 GMT swirsky@olivee.olivetti.com (Robert Swirsky) says: > Every dictionary in the universe says that a soft g is preferred/correct. The Macquarie Dictionary (which was in the known universe last time I looked) has only *one* pronunciation - hard g, i as in pit, hard g, e as in the, bite. Variants with j's or with the i as in bite are not even listed. Yankland is not the only place in the universe where English is spoken. In fact, it is not one of the places in the universe where English is spoken :-) -- Zev Sero - zvs@bby.oz.au Australia, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"