在英语中,“Giga”中的字母“g”通常读作IPA/ɡ/(重音,如giggle [ˈɡiɡl],似汉语拼音g但發浊音),有时则应读作IPA/dʒ/(非重音,如giant [ˈdʒaiənt],似汉语j但發浊音)。[4]后一种读音在1960年代至1980年代逐渐由美国国家标注技术研究所发布的关于国际单位制词头读音的指引所规范。[5]一个明显的例子是1985年的电影《回到未来》(Back to the Future)中单词“gigawatt”(十億瓦特)的发音,「1.21 gigawatts」讀作「one point twenty one jigawatts」。
^原文:The following prefixes to abbreviations for the names of units should be used: G giga 109×
^§3.1 SI prefixes. The International System of Units (SI)(PDF) 8th edition. Paris: STEDI Media. 2006: 127 [2007-02-25]. ISBN 92-822-2213-6. (原始内容存档(PDF)于2020-11-07) (法语及英语). [Side note:] These SI prefixes refer strictly to powers of 10. They should not be used to indicate powers of 2 (for example, one kilobit represents 1000 bits and not 1024 bits). The IEC has adopted prefixes for binary powers in the international standard IEC 60027-2: 2005, third edition, Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology — Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics. The names and symbols for the prefixes corresponding to 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, and 260 are, respectively: kibi, Ki; mebi, Mi; gibi, Gi; tebi, Ti; pebi, Pi; and exbi, Ei. Thus, for example, one kibibyte would be written: 1 KiB = 210 B = 1024 B, where B denotes a byte. Although these prefixes are not part of the SI, they should be used in the field of information technology to avoid the incorrect usage of the SI prefixes. 引文格式1维护:冗余文本 (link)