On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 00:27, Phillip Hellewell wrote:
> > I am really bugged when people insist on pronouncing linux "LINE-UX" or
> 
>       Don't forget about "GIF".  Those who were around when it first came out
> (remember cshow.exe for DOS?) know that it is pronounced "JIF" as in
> peanut butter.

Or what about giga-hertz being pronounced with a hard g?  Everyone who's
seen Back to the Future knows giga had always been pronounced like jiga
(1.21 gigawatts!?!) before some marketing person (at Intel?) decided to
change it!  The nerve.  It just gets me all riled up.  I better get back
to calculating magnetic flux for my capacitors.  This is heavy, Doc.

:)

Bryan


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