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Subject:Pronouncing "gigabyte"; TAKE A STAND! From:Don M Chaffee <dchaffee -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 1 Feb 1994 01:23:32 GMT
Dear fellow docos:
The fact that pronunciation seldom darkens the thresholds of our cubes
notwithstanding, I propose that we all make ourselves truly obnoxious in
our respective places of employment by correcting those amazingly
unlettered engineers, marketing-lizards, and management types of all
kinds, by correcting them every time they pronounce "gigabyte" with a
hard "g," as in "good."
It's "jigabyte," dammit, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! I am
not making this up.
Don Chaffee
Opera Systems, Inc.
Danvers, Mass.
"You need to back up HOW MANY terabytes? No problem!"
