Question

Greek letter pronunciations.

Answer 1

I'm gonna clear my doubts of some Greek letter pronunciations. Thanks.

Answer 2

1) How do you pronounce \(\phi\)? Faaye? Fee?

Answer 3

1) Both pronunciations are generally acceptable. Fy or Fee.

Answer 4

Okay... 2) How do you pronounce \(\psi\)? Saaye? See?

Answer 5

2) It is pronounced like "sigh". (saaye)

Answer 6

3) How about \(\chi\)? Chee?

Answer 7

Chaye?

Answer 8

Kaaye?

Answer 9

You may find this list to be helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_pronunciation_of_Greek_letters
(3) It is pronounced Kai.

Answer 10

I'm unable to understand phonetic...

Answer 11

Ok, no problem.

Answer 12

4) \(\upsilon \) and this one? Yupsilon?

Answer 13

(4) There is no Y sound as in the word "yes". It is pronounced upsilon. (up-sih-lahn)

Answer 14

Oh.

Answer 15

Upsilon

Answer 16

The up sounds more like "oop" but a shortened "oo" sound.

Answer 17

Thanks, and how about the lamba?

Answer 18

lambda is pronounced Lam-duh

Answer 19

How's the "duh" pronounced here?

Answer 20

Oh sorry, I meant "lambda" up there ^^

Answer 21

the "uh" sound is the same in the word "but".
It is basically the same sound as the beginning of the word "doesn't"

Answer 22

Oh, thanks... I got the rest. Appreciated.

Answer 23

Glad to help.