hey,
I don't understand the squiggly letter you guys are talking about...I took Greek (ancient not modern) and the lowercase for Upsilon is a u, just a itsy bit wavier and no stem, but no squiggles.
anyway, i say more oo- than u- but not quite..
My first Greek teacher pronounced them U-psilon and Fee (phi) but other profs have diff pronunciations
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My understanding, and again I may be way off, is that in Greek, the letter F is pronounced "phee." Similarly, in Greek, X is pronounced "ksee," P is pronounced "pee," C is pronounced "kee," and Y is pronounced "psee."
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My greek book basically agrees with this - gives the supposed ancient greek pronunciation, then an anglicized or americanized pronunciation.