Strange Brew by John Deering for April 14, 2010

π is transcendental; cake is even better!

Over qualified.

Greek is mostly phonetic. The sound ‘ee’ is made by ‘eta’ which in lower case looks a bit like an ‘n’ and in uppper case like an ‘H’. The sound ‘eh’ is maded by ‘epsilon’ whixh is pretty much our letter ‘e’. The sound ‘ih’ as in ‘phonetic’ is made by ‘iota’ which is our letter ‘i’. It also stands in for ‘y’ and a soft ‘j’. (Iesou) Modern Greek pronunciation is different from Ancient Greek, quite significantly with some letters. Thus ‘Beta’ is now pronounced ‘Veta’ and the ‘Bee’ sound is obtained by the juxtaposition of ‘Mu’ and ‘P’.

Pi is good.

Pi R squared? Hey, everybody knows Pi R round!

However, I believe the tendency to over inform in genetic, ian. Some of us just phonetic it in.

Hmm? I like food but Pi never ends.

@ Shiek - warning, the cake is a lie.

The New York cheesecake I had last night looked like pie to me.

Very, very good.

you guys sure know a lot about pee

Pie are round; cornbread are squared.

So, iangoodson, you gave us a long explanation on the pronunciation of the different Greek vowels, but I’m still unclear, then, how to correctly pronounce “pi.” I guess it would be easier to just say, “3.14159,” approximately.

http://media.merriamwebster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?pi100001.wav=pi

Thanks, ottod!

Now, children, play nice.

I could go for never-ending pie. As long as it’s not pea or poi pie. And not in Peoria. I don’t want to pee or poopoo pea or poi pie in Peoria.