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I see that the movie SNSMY OW TEE STATS is on television tonight. At least that's what the opening credits said.[*] Clear as day. Saw the credits and started trying to figure out how to pronounce "SNSMY" ...

*mutter*mutter*silly people who think 'Σ' looks like "a fancy 'E'"*grumble*idjits*mutter*

[*] (Or maybe "SNSMY OF THE STATS" if I'm being generous and take the presence of the Roman 'S' and 'A' to mean I should interpret 'H' and 'F' as Roman letters as well instead of Eta and Digamma ... but a sigma is a sigma, dammit. My eye sees one of those, my brain sticks in an ess sound.)

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If they'd wanted to make it look pseudo-Roman, they should have used the E that looks like two less-than signs.

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... and switched to a font that style of 'E' would look right in, yah.

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A sigma is a sigma, but as far as I know, you just don't get capital digammas, because that letter was obsolete by the sixth century BCE. (We'll gloss over my inability to pronounce a final /w/ as a glide, rather than as a signal on how to pronounce the preceding vowel.) And if H and F are Greek letters, I think it becomes SNSMU OW TEE STATS.

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I was going to type "SNSMU" but decided to give whoever lettered the credits a break and acknowledge that upsilon sometimes gets transliterated 'Y' as well as 'U'. (And when you compare modern pronounciation to Homeric, I guess the sound drifted more y-ward as well ... along with about half the other vowels...)

I thought the capitals were older than lowercase. (I'm off to Google and Wikipedia to look that up now.)

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