Tim Little wrote:
> On 2008-05-16, Mike Van Pelt <mvp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Yeah. I haven't seen Iron Man yet, but similar lines of
>> thought ran through my head at the end of the first "Back to
>> the Future" movie, where it seems 1.2 Jiggawatt <sic>
>
> There is no "<sic>". That spelling was never used in the movie, and
> the pronunciation they used of "gigawatt" was officially correct in
> the US.
"Was"? It's never been "officially correct" as far as can be reasonably
understood. (What determines what is "officially correct" pronunciation
of words in the United States, anyway?) Hence why that pronunciation
has been a joke among scientifically inclined people since the movie
came out. It's not like Americans haven't been giggling ("jiggling"?)
at that pronunciation since the movie came out -- in 1985.
That perhaps the average viewer didn't know it was wrong doesn't it make
the pronunciation "officially correct."
I mean, really, if you're going to try to nitpick at this level, it's
"[sic]," not "<sic>."
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