How do you pronounce gigabyte

Jasper A "sixty-four gig" phone. Say "A phone with 64 gigabytes of storage ". Just saying "A phone with 64 GB" is like saying "a car with 20 liters" -- you'd want to add "of fuel capacity" or "gas tank". DepressedDaniel eeh, I'd say a 16 GB phone - that's not going to refer to anything else. I came here all ready to answer 'Great Britain'. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. In this case, say "gigabytes". Colloquially, native speakers may also say "gigs". Improve this answer.

Curtis White Curtis White 1, 7 7 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Yep, I was just going to say "gigs" is fine, but you edited : — Andrew. To be fair, gi bi byte is not in common use by the average English speaker.

Gi gi byte will almost always be assumed. Show 8 more comments. It sounds a little bit like something my technically illiterate parents would say My phone has 64 gee bee But as a counter example, I often hear things like My internet is slow, I'm only getting kbps said kay bee pee ess , stands for kilobits per second I also agree with people saying My phone has 64 gigs or I have a 64 gig phone Those are probably the most natural and casual for GB specifically.

Nathan Tuggy 9, 20 20 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. Joe Pinsonault Joe Pinsonault 4 4 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. For your internet speed example, "kbps" is actually kilo bits per second, not kilobytes. Ah, sorry, I should have capitalized the B. I intended to talk about bytes — Joe Pinsonault. JoePinsonault you are still wrong, you say "I often hear things like" - however, no one on the planet talks about internet speed in terms of bytes.

So please change it to kilobits per second. I can vouch that in my area we always talk in bytes when talking about internet speeds. It's annoying that providers list the bits instead but they do that to make it seem like a bigger number. I can assure you the opposite is true. Only technical people know or care that network speeds are bitwise.

Show 11 more comments. The answer may vary regionally. I would pronounce a "64GB phone" as a gigabyte phone Notice that there is no -s on gigabytes here because "gigabyte" precedes and is modifying "phone. Egmont Senior Member Massachusetts, U.

I think the soft g pronunciation is based on the common misconception that g is soft before e and i in English. This "rule," to the extent that it exists at all in English, applies only to words derived from Latin where it was really a rule, and remains one today in more heavily-based Latin languages such as Italian and French.

It was never a rule for words that came to English from anywhere else. I pronounce it with a hard G. I prefer "giga" over "jiga". My old boss used to say "jiga" simply because of the fore-mentioned Back To The Future pronounciation by Doc.

My boss got made fun of a lot for his pronunciation. Granted, the dictionary says either pronunciation is acceptable, so either can be said and be deemed correct.

When Giga as a prefix came into being, my memory is quite clear that "gi" was pronounced like the "gi" in giant, which is I believe the reason it was so pronounced, because it means gigantic. After some time, a few people began pronouncing it like the "gi" in a musician's gig. This seemed to have caught on, so that this is, in my experience, the most common pronunciation. I, however, refuse to change my pronunciation from the original. Last edited: Sep 23, Egmont said:.

However we got here, it does seem that the most common pronunciation these days for the initial g in giga- is a hard g. We are used to call it GB. Very few times we actiually pronounce whole word Gigabyte. So when suddenly we use whole word many people mis-pronounce it as Jigabyte. Thats my theory. If any one here done some advanced maths or in engineering its like Lhospital rule in mathz. Its not supposed to be called as L Hospital but still many people call it L Hospital rule.

Yes, very strange the english Language is!!! I do agree with The Finchwizard. Ph33r Viper , Feb 25, GIGAByte by me BuMp , Feb 25, You must log in or sign up to reply here.

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