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call it what you will....
concordance, agreement. It might be reasonable to pronounce your greek name all in the English accepted or in the ancient one.
So, Alpha Phi would be ALL-fa FEE (Greek) or Al-fa FY (English)
and Alpha Xi Delta, ALL-fa ZEE (Greek) or Al-fa ZY (English) The most ridiculouis in Upsilon...it is not UP (like high) nor is it Yoop,
but it is OOP (rhymes with poop) si-lawn. And it is TAW for Tau,
and it does not rhyme with COW. Mu is not a bovine, but should
be like a cat, MEW, if one adhere's to modern custom. Iota is
EYE-o-ta, contrary to what SAI says. Groove Phi Groove...cute.
But we have enough problems with ever-changing English in the
pronunciation of Celtic or Xavier (should be ZAY-v-er, do you play
an EX-i-lo-fone? Is it preventive or preventative, orient or orientate, and enamored of or enamored with? Then there is british english. How do we get HO from whore?
Do as you please. Even American English teachers, including the
unemployed, have little understanding of linguistics or phonetics.
Oh, well, some dummies are hung up on writing a paragraph, which she may do well, but misspell the words therein. Duh
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