She is one of scratch cat's friends, but I am wondering how to pronounce that sprite's name- Jee-Jaa? Gee-gaa? Jee-gaa? Gee-jaa? Gih-gaa? Jih-gaa? Gih-jaa? Jih-jaa? you get the idea

I pronounce it as ‘gee-gah’.

k0d3rrr wrote:

I pronounce it as ‘gee-gah’.

But how does ST pronounce it?

CT-OfficialScratcher wrote:

k0d3rrr wrote:

I pronounce it as ‘gee-gah’.

But how does ST pronounce it?

Probably the same, most of the character names are based on storage units or how do you call them, like TERAbyte, NANObyte
GIGAbyte. So I would assume they pronounce it like in the storage units.

'Geeg-a' should be the right pronounciation(atleast it's what I use), but here's the one from google:
/ˈɡɪɡə/

I usually say “Gih-ga” like giga-byte

ajskateboarder wrote:

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I usually say “Gih-ga” like giga-byte

me too

ajskateboarder wrote:

I usually say “Gih-ga” like giga-byte

same

ajskateboarder wrote:

I usually say “Gih-ga” like giga-byte

I do the same too.

Giga comes from Gigabyte, which is often shortened to GB, so, just say “G”

Just kidding, although the name Giga really does come from Gigabyte (like Nanobyte, Terabyte, etc), so you can say it like you say “Giga” from “Gigabyte”

ajskateboarder wrote:

I usually say “Gih-ga” like giga-byte

Same x5

Edit: text to speech calls it gee-gah but google calls it gih-gah. No J though.

uhhh but i pronounce gigabyte like jeegah byte

geeh-gah

therealerkakallika wrote:

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geeh-gah

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scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

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uhhh but i pronounce gigabyte like jeegah byte

Not correct, unfortunately.

it's “gee-ga”, as Scratch characters are based on numerical prefixes, such as giga (Billion), tera (Trillion), nano (One billionth), and pico (One trillionth) (C'mon guys a nanobyte doesn't exist).

kkidslogin wrote:

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scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

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uhhh but i pronounce gigabyte like jeegah byte

Not correct, unfortunately.

it's “gee-ga”, as Scratch characters are based on numerical prefixes, such as giga (Billion), tera (Trillion), nano (One billionth), and pico (One trillionth) (C'mon guys a nanobyte doesn't exist).

I know there's no nanobyte, but my dad taught me the pronunciation wrong then because I've been saying it like that since I was like 5 lol

Edit: HELP HOW DO I FIX THE PRONUNCIATION NOW

CT-OfficialScratcher wrote:

Edit: text to speech calls it gee-gah but google calls it gih-gah. No J though.

bringing this up, google and text2speech disagree…

CT-OfficialScratcher wrote:

CT-OfficialScratcher wrote:

Edit: text to speech calls it gee-gah but google calls it gih-gah. No J though.

bringing this up, google and text2speech disagree…

My guess is that “Giga” is a prefix, not an actual word, and text-to-speech isn't meant to recognize prefixes by themselves, so it thinks it's a made up word. It's like if you put the prefix “bi” into text-to-speech, and it pronounced it “bih” (as in “bit”), that technically wouldn't be wrong because it's not an actual word.

The wiki says that Giga is named after the prefix, and if you put a word starting with giga- (such as gigabyte) into text-to-speech, it pronounces it “gih-guh”. That's also how Wikipedia says the prefix is pronounced. So I think that would be the correct way to pronounce it.

However, if you really want to pronounce Giga's name “gee-guh” in your projects, no rules stop you from doing that.

k7e wrote:

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CT-OfficialScratcher wrote:

CT-OfficialScratcher wrote:

Edit: text to speech calls it gee-gah but google calls it gih-gah. No J though.

bringing this up, google and text2speech disagree…

My guess is that “Giga” is a prefix, not an actual word, and text-to-speech isn't meant to recognize prefixes by themselves, so it thinks it's a made up word. It's like if you put the prefix “bi” into text-to-speech, and it pronounced it “bih” (as in “bit”), that technically wouldn't be wrong because it's not an actual word.

The wiki says that Giga is named after the prefix, and if you put a word starting with giga- (such as gigabyte) into text-to-speech, it pronounces it “gih-guh”. That's also how Wikipedia says the prefix is pronounced. So I think that would be the correct way to pronounce it.

However, if you really want to pronounce Giga's name “gee-guh” in your projects, no rules stop you from doing that.

I think this is an example of words having different pronunciations. I usually call her “gee-gah” but occasionally “gih-gah.”