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Are The Straights OK?

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Is someone holding these poor souls hostage and forcing them to be together?

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

This needs far more upvotes than it has. Maybe people aren't familiar with the correct pronunciation of that letter?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! I think the correct pronunciation might technically be /ˈfaɪ/ (FYE), but I've heard it pronounced /ˈfi/ (FEE) often enough, I'm not sure.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, modern pronunciation agrees with us ("FEE"), but apparently ancient Greeks would have pronounced it "FEY" (or "FEY-EE", I can't quite tell to what degree epsilon-iota was a diphthong).

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

when I see epsilon-iotas on campus, they tend to be diphthongs.