Re: Having seen Iron Man

John Schilling wrote:

> But, just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce, "gigantic"?  As in,
> "gigantic number of Watts", of which "gigawatt" is basically just a
> formalized and rigoriously defined abbreviation.

One could ask the same question of the word _gig_, which is not 
pronounced the same as the word _jig_.  The pronunciation of other, 
similarly starting words is not of much clear evidence here.

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