Bear with me, here. :-)

Jim West jwest at Highland.Net
Sat Oct 16 20:48:50 EDT 1999


At 08:16 PM 10/16/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Okay, all you Greek experts.  I'm a VERY new newbie (started Thursday) and 
>was wondering about the pronounciation of a letter.  How exactly is the 
>omikron pronounced and how different is it from omega? 

This is an excellent question.

omicron is pronounced like the "o" of "on", while omega is the long "o" of "toe"

> Example:  Is QEOS 
>pronounced "theohs" or more like "theahs"?

Neither.  Theos sounds like "payoff".

>  Another one that's giving me 
>trouble is LOGOS because I just want to pronounce it like an omega, 

No- both are omicrons, so it should sound like "law- goss"

>aparently.  Anyway, I have no one to ask but you guys, so there you go.

Ask anything anytime.


Best,

Jim

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