Omicron Pronunciation Stumps Pretty Much Everyone
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Omicron Pronunciation Stumps Pretty Much Everyone
Unless you speak Greek, you’re probably saying it wrong. Even scholars of ancient and modern versions of the language sometimes disagree
Albert Bourla, born and raised in Greece, helps settle the debate on how to properly pronounce the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron.
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Dec. 6, 2021 12:55 pm ET
Listening to news of the latest Covid variant, Odysseas Papadimitriou couldn’t understand what a television news anchor was saying. “It sounded like, ‘Oh my krone,’” he said, “and I was like, what’s that?”
It took a few minutes before Mr. Papadimitriou, who runs the credit-card comparison website WalletHub, realized it was the letter O of his native Greek language. “Oh my God…she’s saying Omicron,” he said. “It was a horrible sound.” He pronounced the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet as “AWE-mee-kron,” as spoken in modern Greek.
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