Watson A.Name - 'Watt Sun' wrote:
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Do people use the "jig-a" way? Never heard of it.

No? Jigawatts? ;-)

Jigahurts was the only way I heard Gigahertz pronounced back in the
'60s when I woekrd for a radio eng'g lab. That's not long after the
time when the prefizxes were adopted. Before that, it used to be
micromicrofarads instead of picofarads.

Somehow betwen then and now it got perverted to today's pronunciation.

The only place I ever heard it pronounced jiga was in the Back To The Future
movies!

In article qg_Sa.3645$Fy1.168899@localhost,
mentioned...
Watson A.Name - 'Watt Sun' wrote:
In article ,
mentioned...
"Costas Vlachos" wrote in message
...
Do people use the "jig-a" way? Never heard of it.

No? Jigawatts? ;-)

Jigahurts was the only way I heard Gigahertz pronounced back in the
'60s when I woekrd for a radio eng'g lab. That's not long after the
time when the prefizxes were adopted. Before that, it used to be
micromicrofarads instead of picofarads.

Somehow betwen then and now it got perverted to today's pronunciation.

The only place I ever heard it pronounced jiga was in the Back To The Future
movies!

My dictionary, Webster's New Collegiate, shows both, but jiga is
first, and it says that the first is the preferred pronunciation.
Many dictionaries are like this, some don't even have the second.
Perhaps the people in the movie had the simple foresight to simply
consult a dictionary when they made the movie.

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:59:00 -0700, "Bullwinkle Jones"
wrote:

Watson A.Name - 'Watt Sun' wrote:
In article ,
mentioned...
"Costas Vlachos" wrote in message
...
Do people use the "jig-a" way? Never heard of it.

No? Jigawatts? ;-)

Jigahurts was the only way I heard Gigahertz pronounced back in the
'60s when I woekrd for a radio eng'g lab. That's not long after the
time when the prefizxes were adopted. Before that, it used to be
micromicrofarads instead of picofarads.

Somehow betwen then and now it got perverted to today's pronunciation.

The only place I ever heard it pronounced jiga was in the Back To The Future
movies!


I first heard the jiga pronounciation from a former Tektronix
scope front-end designer. (Hi, Frank!) My impression was
that this was standard pronounciation there.


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