Jiga Jig

When I was doing my PhD I mixed with a bunch of people of a sort that I haven’t since.

Which is to say, the environment put me in contact with types that I wouldn’t naturally mix with.

Some were outgoing and some were introverts. Some were geeky and some were not. And yet others were eccentric.

However I recall three that were all of; introverted, geeky and eccentric.

And each had an unusual habit of pronouncing a particular word in their own special and unique way.

One said ‘sway-do’ for pseudo.

One said ‘nah-no’ for nano.

And the last one said ‘jig-a’ for giga.

This is spite of the audible evidence that the entirety of the global scientific community demurred.

And the odd, odd thing was that they were never called on it. Everyone was too polite.

I would love to go back and see what it was.

Was it a crusade of indignation? Or a form of auditory autism? Or something else?