On Sat, 17 May 2008 14:55:33 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>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.
Only for the narrow-mindedly literal. The pronunciation of other
words which start with *both* the letters "g-i", *and* the base
meaning, "big/lots", makes things pretty clear.
How do people learn English without understanding etymology?
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