Pronunciation Variation UK/US?
B. D. Colt
babc2 at attbi.com
Thu Jul 25 10:10:13 EDT 2002
On 24 Jul 2002 at 17:04, Anthony Forsyth wrote:
> I was wondering with regards to the pronuciation of Greek whether
> there is any variation between the US & UK (you say tomato...) I was
> taught at school that the 2nd letter was B(ee)ta and it blew me away
> to hear it called B(ay)ta for the first time! Ditto for P(ie)
> becoming p(ee) et al.
I'm not English, but at the age of 82 I'll be hanged if I'll start
calculating
the length of fencing to go around a circular bed by the strange
formula,
pee too are! Not to speak of all the puns one runs into everywhere
with
pi and pie, which would be completely spoiled if anyone were to pay
any attention to such an unnecessary change.
Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at attbi.com
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
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