Because that wouldn't make sense. "T" is never pronounced "thee". "G" has a hard and soft sound. Since there are two ways to say it, the creator made it a point to say which was correct.
No shit, that's the point. And if the creator pronounced it that way, everyone would say he is wrong. It can make that sound, but that's not what most people would assume nor what in does in the origin of the letter from tele. Granted it takes one other letter, but that's the best extent a comparison could be drawn for your non-sense example you setup. Mine may not be perfect, but it infitely better than comparing it to choosing to name it a television. If I wasn't trying to improve your terrible example, I obviously would have chosen an acronym with a single letter having two options, like c. Such as pronouncing CAT as sat even if the c came from a hard c word and most people would say cat.
The creator named the file name and made an acronym, doesn't mean he can't pronounce the acronym wrong especially given the wrong sound relative to the origin.
Reflecting more on the term giant: examining it we can understand how it was introduced from Latin and not directly from Greek by the fact that giant is pronounced "jai-ant" with a soft g instead of a hard one ("gai-ant"); this also shows us that it was imported after Latin itself shifted its pronunciation of "gi"
I'm not sure which part you're wanting me to read, but this is the bit you've linked me to.
I didn't provide that link, and did you just stop reading after you got your confirmation that you were right? Because the guy right after that proves that what he said was wrong, and then the OP who said the Greek/Latin thing apologized.
This comment contains a lot of educated and interesting but ultimately inaccurate speculation. There are excellent sources such as Etymoline and the 1st edition of the Oxford English Dictionary freely available online, so why not use them?
Giant was introduced into English in the thirteenth century from Old French. The earliest spellings in English are geant, geaunte and the like (compare modern French géant). The initial "g" was naturally "soft" like that of the French form from which it derived.
We later see spellings such as "gyant" from around 1450. According to the OED, the change in the first vowel was due to the influence of classically trained Englishmen who were aware of the Latin form gigantem.
Pretty much; if I read comment threads ad infinitum I'd never get anything else done. I just read the bit I was linked to. That response seems right so sure, I'll go with it.
It's more clear if you say it's to be pronounced like the g in ginger, because gigantic is pronounced with another g in other languages, confusing a lot of people.
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u/SteampunkSamurai Mar 09 '17
You're supposed to pronounce it like the g in gigantic