> > ... I also insist on pronouncing "giga" with the first 'g' soft, as in
> > "gigantic".
>
>Imagine my suprise when I watched "back to the future" and discovered that
>the soft G is actually correct!! No engineer I knew pronounced it that way,
>but I guess Zemeckis looked in a dictionary!

So, you think that it is correct just because you heard it pronounced that
way in a movie...

The first time that I saw that movie, it was spoken in English, but with
printed subtitles in Spanish (here in Argentina, we all speak spanish).
Would you believe that "gigawatts" was actually printed "jigawatts" in the
subtitles? (in spanish, "g" and "j" sound nearly identical in certain
situations). So much for movie windsom...

Indeed, the "soft G" IT IS the correct way to pronounce "giga".

Regards,
Andres Tarzia
Technology Consultant, SMART S.A.
e-mail: atarzia@smart.com.ar