Dave VanHorn wrote:
> > > ... 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!

Well, not in latin derivative language countries, since there is no
"hard" G followed by E or I vowels. It will be a surprise to hear GIGA
being said with hard G in those countries.

Wagner.