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On a side note, could they not have chosen a word easier to pronounce for us morons?

I struggle to spell omnicron, never mind pronounce it correctly
 
Octavian said:
On a side note, could they not have chosen a word easier to pronounce for us morons?

I struggle to spell omnicron, never mind pronounce it correctly
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It was supposed to be XI as that was the next letter in the Greek alphabet after NU but they skipped it so as not to piss the Chinese off.
 
Octavian said:
Very good point. It isn’t just about the middle classes fooking off on their jollies, it’s entire societies around the world who’s people rely on tourism for their livelihoods. There’s always a **** or two somewhere trying to make a wad off any situation.
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Yes whole countries rely on tourism for their survival really, well as good as. Also aside from the stress of immigration, security, checking in etcetera it's good for our mental health to have a break.
 
west didsblue said:
I know I'm being pedantic but:

Omnicron is a Normal-type Nexomon who is the legendary King of Monsters and the father of all Nexomon.

Omicron is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet and the name of the latest Covid variant.

No need to thank me;-)
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And no-on on TV or radio in this country appears to know how to say 'Omicron' correctly.
 
Quite possible there will be a big cases total today as numbers over the weekend in Scotland were suppressed by lab cases not reported. They added them all today and scored 3894 about 1600 up on last week.Wales also reports all weekend on Mondays and was well up on 4405 today. Northern Ireland was up over 400 too on last week. So over 10,000 cases from the three nations today. If England was impacted too by this issue then the UK numbers today could seem a bit higher than they really are with any catch up.

Best to judge on the next few days not just what we get tonight.
 
Manc in London said:
And no-on on TV or radio in this country appears to know how to say 'Omicron' correctly.
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I'm not 100% sure myself.

I think it should be pronounced o-mick-ron with the first o pronounced like the o in box.

A lot of people pronounce the first o as in boat, but that is the sound used for the letter omega.

On the other hand it doesn't really matter unless you're Greek.
 
west didsblue said:
I'm not 100% sure myself.

I think it should be pronounced o-mick-ron with the first o pronounced like the o in box.

A lot of people pronounce the first o as in boat, but that is the sound used for the letter omega.

On the other hand it doesn't really matter unless you're Greek.
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My missus is Greek Cypriot. It annoys her :)


Alan Harper's Tash said:
No other Greek letter is the anagram of No Chrimbo though.

One for our conspiracy theorists to use.
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:)

One anagram being 'moronic'
 
41 all settings deaths (England only up from 21 to 34)

51.459 cases - up 8876 on last Monday

England up 6619 on last Monday (34,906) to 41,525 today.
 
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