My 10th grade Physics teacher used to freak out when Dave Wilmot, in an homage to Back to the Future, would blurt out "one point twenty-one jigga-watts!" in class. As my teacher was quick to point out, the word was actually pronounced "gig-uh-watts."
I was thinking about this whilst listening to Jay Z recently. Forget my age-old "do Australians pronounce his name 'Jay Zed'?" question; the new pondering of note was how Doc Brown influenced Jay Z's silly "Jigga" moniker. As best I can tell, Mr. Zed was a huge Back to the Future fan growing up*. Had Doc Brown pronounced "gigawatt" correctly, Jay Zed's nickname would instead be "Gigga."
*Proof: all those songs where the chorus says "Jigga whaaaaaaaat" are really his way of saying "jigga-watt." I rest my case.
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