Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!asmith From: asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Pronounciation of giga Message-ID: <3145@acorn.co.uk> Date: 17 Sep 90 13:09:46 GMT References: <1134.26F1073A@ofa123.fidonet.org> Sender: asmith@acorn.co.uk Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England Lines: 17 In article <1134.26F1073A@ofa123.fidonet.org> rick@ofa123.fidonet.org (Rick Ellis) writes: >On Jeff DePolo writes: > > JD> Is it jig'@ or gig'@? I Have only ever heard Giga pronounced Jiga in 'Back to the Future'. Over here it is pronounced giga (by all I have met). However the pronounciation is a colloquialism and so although it may sound strange to me, it will be common place to others. If there is a correct pronounciation, I would have expected it to be:- gi'ga pref. denoting factor of 10^9 (gigametre). [f. Gk gigas giant] as in the Oxford English Dictionary, which usually closely follows the English language.