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Mick
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#16

09-01-2019, 08:34 PM

(09-01-2019, 02:15 PM)stupac2 Wrote: I was a camp counselor at an educational summer camp at Stanford (that I think WiM did as well) and the instructor arranged a guest lecture with some older physicist, whose name I can't recall, that I would have completely forgotten had it not been the one and only time I have actually heard someone pronounce "gigawatt" as "jiggawatt". I think everyone in the audience who had seen Back to the Future lost their damn minds, at least as much as you can while respectfully listening to a lecture. Turns out that's just the way the science consultant on BttF said gigawatt. I guess it used to be more common? Certainly not any more. Anyway, count me as a hard-g giffer.

Merriam Webster uses the soft "g' for gigawatt, with hard "g" as alternative.

<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigawatt">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigawatt</a>

 Dictionary.com is the opposite.  Hard "g" for gigawatt, soft "g" as alternative.

<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gigawatt">https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gigawatt</a>

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Mick

09-01-2019, 08:34 PM

(09-01-2019, 02:15 PM)stupac2 Wrote: I was a camp counselor at an educational summer camp at Stanford (that I think WiM did as well) and the instructor arranged a guest lecture with some older physicist, whose name I can't recall, that I would have completely forgotten had it not been the one and only time I have actually heard someone pronounce "gigawatt" as "jiggawatt". I think everyone in the audience who had seen Back to the Future lost their damn minds, at least as much as you can while respectfully listening to a lecture. Turns out that's just the way the science consultant on BttF said gigawatt. I guess it used to be more common? Certainly not any more. Anyway, count me as a hard-g giffer.