aos
May one day solve the Mystery of the Whoosh
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Indeed, greek pi is not pronounced like "pie" in other languages (in fact I find the English pronounciation disturbing given that there is an actual pie which you can eat), so I don't think I'll ever pronounce it as "pie" unless I make a conscious effort. It's up to tangent to define PIMETA, I suppose. Kind of reminds me of the case with Linux - Linus Torvalds pronounced that word differently than an english speaker would; there were wav files on the 'net at the time presenting the proper pronounciation. I don't think most people nowdays pronounce it like he did back then, but I do think that it is much closer to his than to the what it woul've been otherwise (lainux (lie-nux) was considered an abomination and Linus called it lee-nax I think, and today it's pronounced as lee-nux by most people I know).