(December 1, 2021 at 10:53 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: On NP news this morning:
Apparently some people are worried about the correct way to pronounce "'Omnicron".
I'm not fussed. I know by now to ignore the way some pill in the US says a word should be pronounced. I remain confident that some Oxford don will tell us the right way, as usual. The Americans will ignore him, as usual.
Pickle me grandmother! People are actually having that conversation? Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "having the intellectual depth of a petri dish "
One local news guy, who is a midwesterner reading news in the northwest corner of the American south, said, last night, "ahm-ee-cron." I did not take his mispronunciation to mean all fuckwits from Kansas are ignorant of the Greek alphabet. I know at least two educated people from Kansas.
Dad used to tell me there's a fool on every corner of every street in every town. I took that to mean don't linger on street corners. But I get it now.
