English pronunciation of Greek letters

English pronunciation of Greek letters

This table gives the common English pronunciation of Greek letters using the International Phonetic Alphabet (see .) It is the pronunciation of the ancient Greek names of the Greek letters using the English teaching pronunciation (traditionally called "Erasmian"). Sometimes, especially in the sciences, the vowels will be pronounced closer to the Greek, for example IPA|/ˈpsiː/ instead of IPA|/ˈsaɪ/ for "psi."

References

*Oxford English Dictionary
*PDFlink| [http://www.thesauruslex.com/Grekalfa.PDF English pronunciation I] |41.4 KiB
*PDFlink| [http://wwwexe.inf.ufsc.br/~arthur/material_didatico/AlfabetoGrego.pdf English pronunciation II] |49.3 KiB
* [http://users.otenet.gr/~bm-celusy/chart1.html British and US Pronunciation]


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