[USMA:32935] Re: Metric in federal legislation

[Philip S Hall]

Which brings to mind a question.  How is giga properly pronounced in 
English?  As GIG-AH or as JIG-AH?  In Back to the Future it was pronounce 
like JIG-AH.

As GIG-AH is the only way I've ever heard it. I sincerely hope that American 
society doesn't start distort it to JIG-AH. One would have to question what 
the heck for? The "Back to the future" movie script may have been a one-off 
though. I'm sure I've heard Americans pronounce the prefix giga as it should 
be.

Phil Hall