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In article <851@ariel.unm.edu>, ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:
> Consider this one: how many hams and other electronikers do you know who pro-
> nounce dB dee-bee, and how many of them actually know it means decibel?

Now hol' on thar!  *I* pronounce it "dee bee", and I *know* that it means
one-tenth of a bel.  How one pronounces a unit often has more to do with
convenience than with knowledge of the underlying unit (just TRY to tell
me you've never referred to a "5 puff capacitor" :-).
> 
> Habit, I suspect, coupled with the natural conservatism that we all possess.
> This will change. How many people do you know who know the peta- and exa-
> prefixes, and the femto- and atto- prefixes?
>
I do (despite a highly embarrasing article recently in which I interchanged
peta and exa...:-).  Two habits I do refuse to part with, however, are "mhos"
and "cycles [per second]" (especially the former).  "Mho"s are not only
meaningful, but FUN as well.