[uClibc] about the name of your project

David Schleef ds at schleef.org
Sat Jun 5 04:07:41 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:39:01PM +0300, George Andreou wrote:
> Anyway, the greek language is a very sad story, but from the evidence 
> you have provided it is very clear you have no other option than to say 
> µ as 'mu', but please if you have to say it in a conversation do the 
> mistake to pronounce it like 'mee' [1] ( written MH in greek capital 
> letters) and not 'm-ou' (mu).

This is a very amusing discussion, but...

  http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Greek_alphabet

Scientific usage of Greek letters generally refers to the acient
alphabet, not modern.  Nevertheless, the letter names are still
pretty consistently mispronounced in the US.



dave...





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