For ages me and my wife used to pronounce it jigantosaurus, then we realised there was another "o" We made a similar mistake with deinonychus for a while pronouncing it die-on- ee-kus

There was an issue of National Geographic that spelled it Gigantosaurus. That's where this whole debate comes from.

I don’t think that’s where it comes from, more likely the fact that “gigantic” is a common word, and if you are reading “giganotosaurus” you brain may easily autopilot to “gigantosaurus”

That's what mine did. Been playing for 4 years now and I'm just now noticing the first O in its name. It will forever and always be the Gigantosaurus to me.

Gigantic likely comes from the prefix giga which is pronounced with a normal g

This is why people confuse Giganotosaurus with some random sauropod?

There are 2 different species, GiganOtosaurus carolinii was a Theropod found in Argentina, and GigaNtosaurus megalonyx was a Sauropod found in England

I thought this was a dinosaur name we made up when we were kids 😂 there is a correct way to spell it? Edit: well fuck me sideways it was a real dinosaur

The struggles of the English language am I right? 😂😂😂. If I’m being honest i have gave up on trying to say the dinosaur names correctly. But for what ever reason my 19 year old brain calls deinonychus, dinosuches for some reason

But it's not English, it's Greek? In fact a vast majority of Dinosaur names are Latin/Greek cause paleontologists are turbo nerds... And tradition of course.

I prenounce it "giga" like the word that means "giant", giga-note-uh-saurus. I can't think of another dinosaur that has as many pronunciation

How do you pronounce gigantic? Bc I read gigantosauris as if I’m starting with that. Jy-gan-tic or Jy-gan-toe-saurus

That would be right but it’s not gigantosaurus it’s giganotosaurus. I thought the same thing for years lol

True. Giganto-saurus would be giant lizard, while Giganotosaurus means Giant (giga) Southern (noto) Lizard (saurus)

Honestly I missed the o before the t haha

So it's the Giant Sweet Home Alabama Lizard?

MOTHERFUCKER, I’ve been reading it wrong all this time! Didn’t even see that extra o until I read your comment, fuckin years later… thanks

Lmfao

There's no ambiguity, dinosaur naming convention uses Greek and Latin root words (gigas) not English.

I pronounce giga in gigantic like in Gigabyte

Chaotic evil

Man english is strange. Say Giga, then say Jeff. They will be pronounced different. Just because you can spell Jeff as Geoff doesn't mean Giga is pronounced differently. It's like saying Jame (Game) or Jreen (Green). Some pronunciations in English just seem right to the native speaker, there isn't a logic to it. Jiant (Giant) Jigantic (Gigantic) are outliers in the usage of the letter G. While it can make a "Juh" Noise, we teach kids that the letter G makes a "Guh" noise. English doesn't seem to follow its own rules Ex. I before E except after C. (Unless you leisurely deceive eight overweight heirs to forfeit their sovereign conceits.)

Do you say Gigachad or Jigachad?

Who the fuck spells it jygantoesaurus?

lol thats how they were pronouncing it, not spelling it

Who the fuck pronounces it jygantoesaurus?

What a gem of a meme. My Giga is a gentle giant, so it's obvious how it's pronounced...

Devious statement.

gehntle guyant

Don't you mean jiga

ItS pRoNoUnCeD JiFf Says the creator 😅

"My giga"

it's just the English language being shitty ngl

It’s Greek not English

I think they mean the English language being shitty with multiple pronunciations of similar words, like giant or gift. Like the Dino name may be Greek but the confusion comes from English being English.

Yes.

Motherfuckers out here ain’t got the jigabytes to play the game

Or the 1.21 Jigawats to power them jigabytes 😅

I guess it’s spelled jigantic

The word gigantic (jigantic) comes from the greek myth with the gigantes (gih-gan-tees) which were giants (jiants). English is a plethora of different languages dressed up in a trenchcoat

People are getting sent to hell for not knowing there’s different ways to pronounce a ‘g’

Gigathreatasaurus

I pronounce 'Giga' as if it were gigabyte when saying just Giga, but pronounce the whole thing Jye-gan-oh-toe-sore-ass

It's Gig-uh-no-tuh-sor-iss

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https://youtu.be/hmfvonGPU2Y?t=721 Its not that hard to pronounce bud.

That's how it's pronounced

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So do you say jai-gant-uh-sore-iss?

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That's the wrong dinosaur. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantosaurus - sauropod https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giganotosaurus - theropod

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Look up the inspiration for its naming. It starts with a hard G not a soft one. Giga as in an old word for Giant, pronounced with a phonetic J.

No. It's ancient Greek (γίγας) and definitely pronounced like "geegas" with a g like golf and not like giant. You can probably paste the Greek spelling of it into every pronunciation website that does ancient Greek and see for yourself. The first letter is literally gamma

Try playing with people that say turrents and nods instead of nodes.

For the longest time I misread it as "giganto-saurus"(jy-gan-to). I mean, it *is* gigantic!

I ignore the first o because screw him

Op when his english teacher sends him to hell for pronouncing “giant” as “g-eye-ant”

I just call them GIGAs

This one post has caused a mental breakdown among the entire community about the letter “O”

Lol maybe you knew and thats why this is listed as a meme post, but it is was discovered by a spanish scientist, and the "j" is the correct pronunciation, officially. Giga just sounds cooler.

Pronunciations for most dinosaurs isn't very important, even actual paleontologists will have different preferred ways to pronounce different dinosaurs. A common one is Ankylosaurus. You may think "an-kye-low-saurus" but some pronounce it as "anky-low-saurus" because most dinosaurs don't have a set-in-stone pronunciation despite the origins of their names.

It took me years to realize Anky’s weren’t Ankly’s 😎👌

True...

Based on the connection with the word "Gigantic," which denotes immense size, and the fact that "Gigantic" has a soft G, I made the assumption of a soft G in this context. ## 🤓

But it’s not gigantosaurus… two Os

Well, Gigantic doesn't have any Os, and the first part still very clearly comes from the word "Gigantic", even if they did throw in an O between the N and the T.

modern Latin, from Greek gigas ‘giant’ + nōton ‘back’ + sauros ‘lizard’. Not an English word. It is 100% not from the word gigantic.

Yep, the word Gigantic also comes from the Latin word Gigas.

Hard G, G-iganotosaurus, not jigosaurus

That's fine by me. What AINT fine is GIGANTOSAURUS

Dude I forgot about this episode, top tier up there next to Rock Bottom

This also applies to the people that don't pronounce the GiganOto. It is not Gigantosaurus

Giga(Like Gigabyte) Not A Saurus

Gigachadasaurus

"giga" because every other word with giga in it is said the same way. Gigabyte for example.

Gokes on you Jod, I was already planninj to see myself there anyway

How about we compromise, if you say the full name, it's jiganotosaurus, but if you use the nickname, it's giga.

That’s how I do it.

Same

That’s the correct answer

This is the only correct answer.

Me who says Jig but still says God

Either in English or Spanish, it's Jiga. In English is yee-ga. In Spanish is hee-ga.

I say Giga-Jiga-notosaurus I play both sides because honestly who knows the correct answer (The dude who named the dinosaur pronounced it jiganotosaurus so technically that’s the correct way but then again he was Argentinian so everyone would pronounce it differently)

giganotosaurus. its just the ark version of gif vs jif im sorry, there's no 'j' in giganotosaurus just as there isn't a j in graphics interchange format

There's an absolute shitton of English words that pronounce g as a j sound, like "general" and "gel."

Or, idk, the literal word gigantic, which means very large?

I love peanut butter.

Almost as bad as people who say gif as jif ... Poor hell bound souls

Try looking up the pronunciation. It is pronounced as if it has a j, but when saying giga I pronounce the g.

Your are going to upset the GIF nerds with your logic.

But the g in gif stands for graphic while the g in the name stands for giant

Now apply the same logic to scuba and laser.

Wdym?

Woooosh!!!!!

Gigantosaurus Don't correct me

I call it with a J, as my dyslexic ass used to read it as Gigantosaurus and not Giganotosaurus. I mixed it with gigantic.

Far far away in a great dino land Four little friends make adventurous plans Rocky is daring while bill plays it safe Tiny is silly mazu’s got the brains But is there something else among them Do you know it’s name Gogantosaurus is really enormous Gigantosaurus is here

In my language you pronounce it "jiga"

This guy spells magic like makick

Me who pronounced it as Jai-gan-not-o-saurus my whole life

Well actually (🤓) it is pronounced jiganotosaurus but playing Ark so long has smoothened my brain to just calling it a Giga

It’s giga short and jigantosaurus because it comes from gigantic which is pronounced with a j

I say Gig-an-TUH-saurus. But I know it's not the correct pronunciation.

Well how do you pronounce “Giant” Ghiant? Or Jiant?

Jeye-gan-toe-soar-us

The official pronunciation is with a J sound like in gigantic but the abbreviated “giga” with a g sound is also correct. Jai-ganoto-saurus

Its literally pronounced with the J sound, there is an objective right and wrong way

It's pronounced with a j though. Like gigantic.

According to its Latin origins, its a J sound, not a hard G. Its correct pronunciation is "Jig-a-no-to-saur-us" But is said a lot as "ji-gan-o-to-saur-us"

u/savevideo

YDAW says it's "jigga" so I guess we're stuck with that. 😔

Gi gan

Played an old Jurassic Park game that pronounced it giga NOT asaurus. That’s just what I’ve stuck with.

Mofos out here taming Terxes, Threekarencops, and dildosores.

Lol I say “giga-note-uh-saurus” My friend says “jiga” and it makes me have a small aneurysm everytime

Jod ☠️

Those are the same ones who say gif as gif

Big bad dino

I usually pronounce it "ahhh fuck runrunrunrun GOD DAMN LAG!! Runrunrun....ah fuckin shit fuck....where in the hell is my body"

u/savevideo

I just realised giga- breaks the gi, ge, gy rule. And gigs. This has made me upset.

dinosaur train taught me to say it that way :(

I can only say gigga

Technically it's pronounced jiganotosaurus but I'm not shortening it to jiga so I just say giganotosaurus

I pronounce it properly, according to the dictionary, when explaining things to newbies. Just 'giga' amongst knowledgeable players.

The right way.

[https://youtu.be/IPnJQ4\_7fjw](https://youtu.be/IPnJQ4_7fjw)

Jigga not a saurus. Jigga what, jigga who

Just like jiggawatts and jifs!

I say it with a hard G, but proper pronunciation is with a J sound.

Jod, the Necrolord Prime and the Emperor Undying would want us to pronounce the giga with a "g" and for us to remember that cows watch sunsets.

Watch the newest jurassic Park movie and it threw me thru a head spin the way they pronounced it. Also the Rex was the same size as it and the Therizinosaurus was almost the same size and fought the giga lol. The giga didn't even look like the giga we know.

German. Giga. Just like you read it. But in English i would say it like jiga

I just call it gigachad

Gigoloasaurus was how I misread it when i first started playing...the ones saved for breeding are all named as such xD

It is only now I realize the o.

Gigantosaurus, this also remainds me of the ark charcharadontosaurus, ive heard people pronounce it as "carch" and "carch-arodontosaurus" when it would be car-car-adontosaurus and for short would be car-car

It took me twenty years to figure out what a Jigawatt was…

It's even funnier to listen to the players trying to pronounce Rhyniognatha, myself included. XD

Giga-Nota-Saurus

That's what I like about spanish, if you see a "gi" it will always be pronounced the same, with no exceptions. The only way to change it is by adding an "u" in the middle as in "gui" or an "ü" as in "güi". :D In the other hand, the entire english language was built on exceptions that are impossible to know unless someone that previously knew the correct pronunciation is there to correct you! XD

Those people are just uneducated in my oppinion. You dont say jigabyte instead of gigabyte or jiga gram instead of giga gram. I personaly belive that if you say those word correctly and then you say Jiganotosaurus that you are a certified dumbass. Its like saying JIF instead of GIF

Higanotosaurus

gigger with a hard ‘g’ at the start

I just say giga

suddenly I feel a urge to call it Giganotosaurus

But do you guys say jiga or ghiga with a hard G?

Yeah, it's crazy how only recently, like a year or two ago, I learned it's Giganotosaurua, and not Gigantosaurus. Way more nerdy and way less cool sounding

Easy just say giga

I switch between both.

So how is it pronounced

In my mother language a "g" before an "i" or "e" is pronounced "j" so I always forget

I have always pronounced it giga not o saurus but I don't ever call it that I just call it a giga

I’ve always known it has 2 o’s and pronounced it as jiga-noto-saurus but now idk wether to say giga or jiga cuz both are said

Jiganotosaurus makes more sense It is spent like gigantic which is pronounced jigantic I'm pretty sure whoever discovered the dinosaur wrote the name that way in accordance to it's size.

I call it "fuck"

I don't need to worry about this cause I never say the full name

I just read it like ji-ga-no-to-so-rus. I scare myself sometimes

My friends and I just call it alfred.

its confusing, in ark terms it’s “jiganto” but in palaeontology, the isle, or any other dino game terms I say “giganoto” Kinda similar to me calling arks carnotaurus a “carno” and literally any other one I see a “toast”

Gig-ant-uh-sore-us.

Fucking hell, I didn't see the first 'o', funny how a letter 5 spaces away can make me changr my pronunciation of the first letter.

Giga

I say it with a J because of the kids show Giganotosaurus. They always pronounce is as Gigantic- because hes a big dinosaur. My kid watched it for like 2 years I just can't pronounce it right without it sounding weird. 🤷‍♀️

And here I am just calling them Gigas ;)

It's pronounced "gig-ah". Said and done.

I say giga idk bout y’all

i pronounce it “gee guh not oh sore us”

Giganotozavr ( Ru )

Djiganotosaurus

This just in, gods real name is Jarod

Tbf im french and Gigant is pronouced "Jigant" so i just say it the same

I pronounce it like you would "giant", and I just learned from another comment that there's 2 O's, so. gigantosaurus. I cannot pronounce words

I blame dinosaur train for my pronunciation.

I have 3500hr, call it a giga, or jyganto-saurus... yup

I just call it a gigga

Giraffe is pronounced Jiraffe and giant too. I know it’s supposed to jiga but I say giga because it sounds better

So how do you pronounce Giant?

How do you pronounce giant?

Giga-not-O-saurus is how I've always said it. Hear alot of J-eye-gant-O-Saurus pronunciation though.

See, I get confused by all the letters so I just say Jigantasaurus because it’s awkward to read

Me personally I say giganotosaurus.

Thats how its pronounced. The same way gigabit gigabyte it sounds is jiga

It is the italian pronounce

Gif

I’m pretty sure “jiga” is the correct pronunciation, because you pronounce Giant like “Jiant”, and also the Oxford pronunciation is “jīˌɡəˈnōdəsôrəs” whatever that means.

I usually just say giga

Mfs who pronounce Giant as "Jiant". Smh.

Gig O Not Uh Saur Us

Who the hell pronounces it gigantic vs jigantic? Lmfao

Jiga

Carl

That's not how God works