Oh MEE ga drives me crazy whenever I hear it pronounced that way, particularly from an English-speaking person. It seems, at least to my ears, to be a deliberate and pretentious, effected way of pronouncing it. O May ga is how the word/letter is pronounced in English in every other context. It's not a family name so you can't fall back on that as a rationalization either.

 

Says the country who foisted the word 'Semester' on us all. You borrowed our language. Shush.

 

Listen and learn

 

Actually, even youtube auto subtitles can't understand it correctly and display "AMIGA"

 

Ohmega for me. 'Mega' as in 'megabyte' with stress only on the first syllable 'O'. I say 'tomahto', you say 'tomaydo' etc., etc.

 

Because it's all about meee, Bond, James Bond.

 

they should change the spelling to Omeega

 

 

It doesn't matter what any of us think is the correct pronunciation, it is how the Greeks say it that matters, it's their word after all.

 

That can't possibly be true, as most english words are borrowed from other languages, and we anglicize the pronunciation of all of them.

 

I'm British and I say it OH-MAY-GA but I may just be an outlier.

I'm sure I have also used OH-MEE-GA when I forget how to pronounce things properly.

As for calling the British perverted.

Well, thank you!

 

Absolutely.

And you try pronouncing things right with a red ball in your mouth and a leather gimp mask over your nose!!

 

Really ? Out of all things that folks across the pond doing differently - this one got your attention?

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk

 

Really ? Out of all things that folks across the pond doing differently - this one got your attention?

Woah there, keep your pants on, Chief...

 

The END


Sent from my Motorola StarTac 7797 using Tapatalk.

 

The END

Sent from my Motorola StarTac 7797 using Tapatalk.

Omega will be my final purchase.

Sent from my Motorola StarTac 7797 using Tapatalk.

 

O-MAY-GA, if it's part of a math formula,

O-MEH-GA, if it's a renegade Time Lord....

O-MEE-GA if it's a gadget watch.

 

My next rant:
Why do we (Anglophones) say PINEAPPLE when the whole world says ANANAS?

It's too close to bananas

 

Only in the shop i guess, anyone who has seen (or touched) a banana knows that a pinapple/ananas isn't exactly the same.

 

Is that like all the people that think the x is silent in victorinox?
Basically affecting a French accent on a word and making it sound fake and ridiculous.

.

 

Is that like all the people that think the x is silent in victorinox?
Basically affecting a French accent on a word and making it sound fake and ridiculous.

What, you don't like to shop at "Tar-ZHAY"???

 

My next rant:
Why do we (Anglophones) say PINEAPPLE when the whole world says ANANAS?

It's a fruit like an apple and it looks a bit like a pine cone?

 

It's a fruit like an apple and it looks a bit like a pine cone?

Seriously??
Like an apple?
Bruh!! Get out more.

 

A lot of them say Por-shhhhh too. Just don't ask us to say Jaguar.

 

Years ago, my jeweler told me it was pronounced Oh-mee-guh when I was looking at the watches on the display.

Should’ve known it was the Brits. Always butchering some word or the other. Ah-lieu-miniom. Hai-hoon-dai.

 

Years ago, my jeweler told me it was pronounced Oh-mee-guh when I was looking at the watches on the display.

Should've known it was the Brits. Always butchering some word or the other. Ah-lieu-miniom. Hai-hoon-dai.

That's rich coming from a country where they pronounce herb as 'erb as if they're suddenly Francophone - it's got a ****ing H in it.

 

You should come from Yorkshire then OMIGA is quite acceptable. If it’s someone putting a posh voice on then you will hear HOMIGA.

 

English language is weird.

 

Don't care how it is pronounced. Just like owning them.......

 

omg, this again

 

I didn't start it, but am determined to end it, with incontrovertible PROOF!
Go type in any language you want the word 'Omega' translated into, and press 'play.'
And thrill to the apocalyptic ending of this pronunciation saga.

Google Search

www.google.com

 

I just listened to every language that was available to listen to, on Google Translator.

99% of humanity say as we Americans say it: O-MEH-GA or O-MAY-GA, certainly not O-MEE-GA.

So, how the devil did the Brits come up with this peculiar perversion?
Why do Omega get James Bond to mispronounce it in every one of his damn movies?

And more pertinently, why do we Americans put up with this cheekiness?

'Cos if it belongs to anyone, it belongs to the Greeks?

It's used in every situation one discussed Omega. That includes cars (there was a Vauxhall/Opel called the Omega); fatty acids; and Pokemon. It's weird; I've never understood it. It comes directly from the Greek, "big O", but they don't say meegabyte, or meegalomaniac, or meegastore. Yet, Omeega.

 

'Cos if it belongs to anyone, it belongs to the Greeks?
they don't say meegabyte, or meegalomaniac, or meegastore. Yet, Omeega.

Where would we all be today witout the Greeks?
No cellphones, no nuthin.

Brits and all their isles must be nuked. Hard. From orbit. Just to be sure.

Besides, let's forget about the (theft of the ) Elgin Marbles.

 

Some strange speak dat Omega........

Go gobble on Jaeger LeCoutre for the Ever Popular Tortured & Twisted Tongue Effect.......

Cheerz,

Alan

 

 

 

Why not be able to pronounce it two different ways which is not unique. Celtic can be either Selltic or Keltic.

 

Tell it to the Selts...[emoji16]

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk