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Shortly thereafter, I got a nice laminated sheet from IUPAC with units and prefixes on it. They took special care to point out that giga- (the correct spelling!) was pronounced with the first g as a hard g, and the second, as a soft one! According to my Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1993) the first (preferred) pronunciation is " 'ji - ge " (as in jiggle) and the alternative pronunciation is " 'gi - ge " (as in giggle).
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Just to add fuel to the fire, fish have gills (as in giggle),
but I drink beer by the gill (as in jiggle or jill).
A gill is 4 fluid ounces, 118.3 mL in the US and 142.1 mL in the UK.
(Thanks to Keith Oldham for pointing this out to me some years ago!)
The following table was adapted from NIST Special Publication 811 which is available online at
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/contents.html
or in PDF format from http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp811.pdf.
My tax dollar at work!
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