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Old 01-07-2004, 03:10 PM
GeekyPenguin GeekyPenguin is offline
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Originally posted by MysticCat81
Actually, while "taw" is used by most if not all GLOs, most dictionaries seem to give either pronunciation as correct. From what I can tell, "tow" (like "towel") rather than "taw" (like "paw")is the correct pronunciation in Classical and Koine Greek, and in modern Greek it is pronounced either 'tow" or "daf." (Go figure that last one.)

FWIW.
Yay I wasn't really wrong! He got even crankier when I told him about the Alpha PHEE/Gamma PHEYE Beta thing and I called them PHEE Kappa TOW. Both Sigma Tau Gamma and Tau Kappa Epsilon pronounced it TOW on our campus - I had never heard TAW until I met an Alpha Sigma Tau from Beloit.
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