How to you pronounce omicron how to#

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Helen Skelton's estranged husband Richie Myler is expecting a baby with his new girlfriend six months after split from Strictly star Professor Aris Katzourakis, an Oxford scientist and native Greek speaker, told the Telegraph that English speakers should try to say 'oh-me-cron, with the emphasis on the o'.Īnother academic, Richard Catling, who is the assistant editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, said to the Independent that it is more accurate to emphasise the first syllable rather than the second.Įmma Aston, Professor of Classics, also added: 'For a Classicist like me, the pronunciation O-mikron (emphasis on the first syllable, and that syllable a short o as in English 'box') is preferable.'Ĭamilla may not be able to wear the Queen Mother's Crown at the coronation to avoid upsetting India and other nations

However, language experts have suggested that it may in fact be more accurate to pronounce Omicron in the way that the BBC have chosen to do. In response, Jess Brammar, the editor of the BBC's news channel, joked on Twitter: 'Guilty as charged, I did not do Greek at school'. But I do find it a bit odd that the BBC News is saying omicron with the stress on the first syllable.'Ī Telegraph reader added in a letter that 'clearly' no-one at the BBC had studied Greek at school, because they said the word should be pronounced 'oh-my-cron', 'with the emphasis on the second syllable'. She said: 'I am NOT a technical ancient linguist.

The BBC has pronounced it as 'OM-mi-cron', with heavy emphasis on the first syllable.īut on Sunday, well-known historian and classicist Mary Beard took to Twitter to criticise the corporation's choice of emphasis.

How to you pronounce omicron how to#

The new Omicron variant of coronavirus has sparked fears in Britain and around the world that the fight against a pandemic which has raged for nearly two years might be seriously set back.īut now, a new war has broken out: over how to say the variant's name, which is the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet.