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From: Mike Dana <mike.dana@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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Bob Goudreau wrote:
> 
> : Mike Dana <mike.dana@boeing.com> writes:
> <snip>
> : >This LOOKs like the age-old American dispute over the correct
> : >pronunciation of "greasy":  gree see in the West vs. greee zee in the
> : >North-East.  Which one is "correct" appears to depend on where you are
> : >geographically.
> <snip - Siemens advert. stuff>
> However, as long as Mike Dana has brought up the "greece-ee" vs.
> "greeze-ee" issue, I should point out that he stated it backwards,
> Linguists have discovered a pronunciation "fault-line" running roughly
> west from the mid-Atlantic states, and zig-zagging a bit on the way
> to the Pacific.  *North* of this line (including the northeast), the
> "greece-ee" pronunciation dominates; south of the line, the "greeze-ee"
> method rules.
> 
> <sig. snipped>

Interesting.  I hadn't heard this theory, so I conducted my own,
unscientific, ten-minute poll (we have people from all over the country
here at Boeing).

T.H. grew up in Dayton, OH. -- "gree zee"
E.L.     "      Boston, MA. -- "gree zee"
T.R.     "      Detroit, MI. -- "gree zee"
M.Z.     "      Brooklyn, NY. -- "gree zee"
W.M.     "      Tempe, AZ.  -- "gree see"
J.D.     "      Sante Fe, NM. -- "gree see"
R.B.     "      San Diego, CA. -- "gree see"
C.S.     "      Colorado Springs, CO. -- "gree see"

As I said, this is "unscientific", and just a small sampling... but it
makes me wonder just how much your "fault-line" zig-zags.
-- 
Mike Dana
Everett, Washington, U.S.A.
[This message contains the opinion only of the author, not of The Boeing
Co.]
"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt"  -- Julius Ceasar
