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silverglass
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 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: Simple question: how exactly is 'beta' pronounced? |
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I'm just curious... I have been told that it is pronounced as 'better', but I've also heard that it's pronounced 'bee-tah' - which is right?
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I say beetah, myself.
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wenont
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:32 am Post subject: Beetah, Beater, BAH! |
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I have always pronounced it like the siamese fighting fish..."Beahtah"...
Then again, I have a hard enough time speaking my native tongue...ah...that would be English...erm ...with a Bostonian accent...  
Just my two cents worth...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Like the greek letter: bay-tah, as I was taught.
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wenont
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:12 am Post subject: Beta fun! |
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Hey! That is zactly how I say it! Um...again...with a Bostonian accent...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Like the greek letter: bay-tah, as I was taught. |
That's how I hear it in my head...
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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I must admit that now that I've 'heard' Nancy say it 'bay-tah', that's how I do it when I'm in French mode... but when I'm in English in my head, it's 'bee-tah'.
Go figure.
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paranoidangel
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Like the greek letter: bay-tah, as I was taught. |
I pronounce it like the greek letter as well, but in my case, that's bee-tah
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Then we're all in agreement ... 
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silverglass
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Alright. Thank you, all of you!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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I say beta..."beh-tah"...Oh dear.......
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Hi! NancyBrooke asked the question in another topic and then I came here by chance and saw the debate.. Well, as I was writing there too I am greek  and hence familiar with the word:
| Quote: | | As for the word beta (hm hmm, clears voice and gets a serious expression), it is actually the second letter of the greek alphabet and the original one is actually pronounced vita! It is the letter that stands for the sound -v- but when it was used in the latin alphabet, it stood for -b-. Hence the letter's name changed into beta... Now, as for the right way to pronounce it, I think something like -beita- sounds betters than -bita-, after all, it is the latin version of the name to begin with. And in case someone was wondering, it was also the symbol for the number 2 (before the arabic numbers kicked in), and so beta reader actually means "second reader"! |
So there you have it!!! |
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so nice to have many nationalities here at OSA
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I just used the techgeek pronounciation of beta. I never knew it had latin origins.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: beta |
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bait- uh .
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