[B-Greek] Pronouncing letter names
Blake T. Garretson
blakeg at metalink.net
Thu Oct 2 22:33:55 EDT 2003
I'm learning NT Greek from books, and while they tell you how to
pronounce the sounds the letters make, they don't tell how to correctly
pronounce the letter name itself. I'm an engineer, so I'm quite
familiar with all of the letters (via equations and formulas), but I
suspect engineering professors are the worst source for correct Greek
pronounciation!
What's the "right" way to prounce the letter xi? "Zee" or "zie" (rhymes
with pie)? Does "chi" rhyme with "pie", or is it pronounced "key"?
Same with psi and phi? I've had some profs say "fee", and some "fie".
Confused,
Blake Garretson
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