(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 "
It's spelled "omicron", with no "n" right after the "m", btw. Long "o" long "e" for the "i", short "o" is the Greek pronunciation. USians and many others pronounce it differently, and those pronunciations have found their way into our dictionaries in much the same way as "nuclear" being pronounced "new-cu-lar" has found it's way, instead of being pronounced "new-clear".
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.