Re: Singular they

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:20:58 -0000

unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote in
news:csbi0v$dfn$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca:

> Giga was introduced into physics decades ago. Long befor computer
> people thought that kilo was a large number.
> And I have always heard it pronounced with a hard G.

A hard g would have been the preferred pronunciation of giga, gigabyte and
gigawatt about 20 years ago.

J 

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