A small rant
 

OK, hate to be the one who brings this oh-so-scintillating discussion on how to pronounce the Greek Alphabet to a screeching halt, but here is a link that you'll find helpful. You can even click on the letter and hear how it is actually pronounced!

The Real Deal

This subject comes up over and over again and as an "ethnic Greek" it makes me batty. And no, I have never changed the pronunciation of the Greek Alphabet to avoid offending other GLO members. If anything, *I* should be offended that you're mangling my native tongue. But I'm not, because its unreasonable to expect non-Greek speakers to pronounce Greek perfectly. News flash: Ethnic Greeks will not go into a homicidal rage if you can't pronounce "Phi" correctly. Nor do we lose sleep at night over "X-eye," "Zee," or "Ksee."

In fact, when I'm with other GLO members even *I* pronounce the Greek alphabet the Anglicised way because I don't want to get into this asinine conversation EVERY DAMN TIME.

Thank you, drive through.

How do the Bush twins pronounce it?

THEY'RE THETAS YOU KNOW

I don't think that's going to bring the thread to a halt. I posted that link years ago and CutiePie2000 posted links to all of those threads where we've discussed this previously. People post their random theories regardless of how much people post the real deal.

I'll look to the Bush family for pronunciation advice when W learns how to pronounce the word "nuclear".

wptw

And they're hot. Can you stop hating?

-Rudey

Nuh 'uh, sista. Everyone knows that three letter orgs just weren't good enough to have everything expressed in two letters.

And PH-eye rocks jo mama.

I'm not hating, they are cute. When I worked in retail back in college Barbara came in to buy a sleeping bag. There was a big hubbub. It was neat!

Re: A small rant
 

Well in.