Luis Moreira wrote:

> In Portuguese you pronounce it as "jiga" because a "g" followed by a
> vole (except u) always reds as "J".

Except a, o, u? (Which leaves e and i for the "j" pronunciation :)


FWIW, it seems that the Greek original used something closer to the "g"
sound. http://www.mail-archive.com/usma@colostate.edu/msg23248.html

OTOH, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga says "As giga is a greek word and
greek is a phonetic language it is pronounced with a soft G as in jiggle."
Not sure what the spelling of "greek" says about the factual quality of the
phrase.

I don't know Greek, so I can't say who is right (about Greek). The Greek
Wictionary entry is not of much help to me
http://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%B1%CF%82 :)

Gerhard

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