Re: Singular they

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

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:27:47 -0000

"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in news:HNGdncc80ueABnHcRVn-
sg@comcast.com:

> Bryan Olson wrote:
>> Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>> > Since it comes from Greek it would have to be a
>> > "hard" gamma.
>> It comes, more directly, from "gigantic".
>
> No, it doesn't. Are you telling us that your
> father pronounced gigawatt "jeye-gaa"-watt?

I dunno how Bryan's father's pronounced it, but in 1983 Olson, and Webster,
too, would have said jig-uh-watt. 'Twas the preferred pronunciation.

J 

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