Talk:Mu (letter)

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There is no water-related word marah in Hebrew AFAIK. The only instance I can find is here, and it's obviously a place name, coming from the root mrr (which means bitter, i.e. it's called marah because of its bitter water). In any case, the root Indo-European root m*r (for sea) is not related to Hebrew. A water-related word that starts with M in Hebrew should obviously be מים maim - water.

Why do the english speaking world say mu (as in moo, the sound cows make). I learnt it as mi and thats how greeks say it -- Slogankid

{=========================================================} its MI for crying out loud !!!

Actually, the correct spelling is My (and Ny). Mu and Nu are not correct. 91.55.105.211 20:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

No its not. Even in greek its spelt mu but thats pronounced me--Slogankid 19:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

You are both wrong, and so is the article. The correct spelling is 'M'. The classical pronunciation is 'mu', the modern one is 'mi'. Guido den Broeder (talk) 00:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Yea, I agree.Grk1011 (talk) 00:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why mu?

Why say English-speakers “mu” instead of “my”? I mean you say system, not sustem, then why hubris and mu? Thank you. Kuddeldaddeldu (talk) 11:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

well "my" wouldnt be the right way, it would be "mi" because the other way would be "my" as in my car, my pencil, etc. Y makes a different sound in English than it does in Greek.Grk1011 (talk) 00:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

In:

Modern Greek

In Modern Greek, the name of the letter is spelt μι and is pronounced [mi].

spelt is the wrong word. It should be "spelled". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.127.223.98 (talk) 14:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Both wikt:spelt and wikt:spelled are correct. EdC (talk) 01:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the backup. Grk1011 (talk) 01:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)