On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 20:01 -0400, David VanHorn wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm curious, where have you found that "jigawatt" is the correct
> > pronunciation?
> >
> > Anybody who would say GB as "jigabytes" where I work would probably get
> > some laughs.
> 
> 
> Looked it up in the dictionary.
> 
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/24/G0122400.html
> 
> This one lists both pronunciations, but I looked it up right after seeing
> the movie, whenever that was.

Interesting. All I'd have to say is they are no longer up to date. I
have NEVER heard the metric prefix "giga" pronounced as "jiga", and this
is going back at least 20 years.

>From Wiki:
In the movie, the power required is pronounced "one point twenty-one
jigawatts". Although this pronunciation of "gigawatt" was once
considered the correct one, it is no longer the most common.

I'm even more curious now, does anyone on the list regularly pronounce
that word these days as "jigawatt" (or more commonly perhaps jigabyte)?

TTYL

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