HWOWever this is kind of fucked up anyways cause in plato's time at least (4th century bce) the letter still wasnt called that, it was just called "o" (he talks abt this in Cratylus) so calling it this name but using a classical attic pronunciation is itself anachronistic
i think later (not sure how much later) omicron and omega merged to have the same quality but were still different in length, then later vowel length was no longer distinctive and such is greek today. so presumably at some point when the two "o" sounds were becoming more similar some weirdo grammarian decided to give them more descriptive names
Kinda fun that in Russian it happened to a bunch of letters, now duplicate letters were just thrown out, and it happened twice - during Peter the Great reforms and after October Revolution.
HWOWever this is kind of fucked up anyways cause in plato's time at least (4th century bce) the letter still wasnt called that, it was just called "o" (he talks abt this in Cratylus) so calling it this name but using a classical attic pronunciation is itself anachronistic
bce = before celery eating
truly excellent post. ive been eating a lot of celery lately. godspeed
Like broccoli and cauliflower and corn, prehistoric people did not have celery to eat
i think later (not sure how much later) omicron and omega merged to have the same quality but were still different in length, then later vowel length was no longer distinctive and such is greek today. so presumably at some point when the two "o" sounds were becoming more similar some weirdo grammarian decided to give them more descriptive names
Kinda fun that in Russian it happened to a bunch of letters, now duplicate letters were just thrown out, and it happened twice - during Peter the Great reforms and after October Revolution.