Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!sq!rph
From: rph@sq.sq.com (Pontus Hedman (VE3RPH))
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of pico
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.080147.4905@sq.sq.com>
Keywords: pico, pronunciation
Organization: SoftQuad Inc.
References: <02444.AA02444@lemsys.UUCP> <4531@qip.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 08:01:47 GMT
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john@qip.UUCP (John Moore) writes:
>In article <02444.AA02444@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) writes:
>]how pico should be pronounced?  P-EEE-CO or P-EYE-CO.  I've heard both.
>EE's say P-EEE-CO, farmers say P-EYE-CO ;-)
>-- 
>John Moore HAM:NJ7E/CAP:T-Bird 381 {ames!ncar!noao!asuvax,mcdphx}!anasaz!john 

If you're talking picofarads (about the only picos you'll find in
electronics), they were always called a "pikes" in my TV tech days.
Microfarads, of course, were "mikes"...
-- 
Pontus Hedman			rph@sq.com		{uunet|utzoo}!sq!rph
VE3RPH				(416) 963-8337

"...so likes if we sticks in dis 4700-piker here dat should stop dem
osculations troo dat rectum-frier in the power supply wouldnchasay joe?"