Talk:Mu (letter)

message: Why do the english speaking world say mu (as in moo, the sound cows make). I learnt it as mi and thats how greeks say it -- Slogankid —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slogankid (talk • contribs) 17:53, 15 February 2007 
: {=========================================================}its MI for crying out loud !!!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.78.15.63 (talk) 21:36, 28 June 2007 
::Actually, the correct spelling is My (and Ny). Mu and Nu are not correct. 91.55.105.211 20:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * No its not. Even in greek its spelt mu but thats pronounced me--Slogankid 19:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ** You are both wrong, and so is the article. The correct spelling is 'M'. The classical pronunciation is 'mu', the modern one is 'mi'. Guido den Broeder (talk) 00:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

text: *** Yea, I agree.Grk1011 (talk) 00:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

text: The correct writing is My, as well as Ny and Ypsilon. In Italian, the y is replaced by i since the Italian language doesn't know the letter Ypsilon. A Greek y is pronounced like French u or German ü, but in both languages the letter µ is written My an not Mu or Mü respectively. So, My ist the correct word, Mu is nonsense. --93.232.217.12 (talk) 21:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

text: well "my" wouldnt be the right way, it would be "mi" because the other way would be "my" as in my car, my pencil, etc. Y makes a different sound in English than it does in Greek.Grk1011 (talk) 00:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And the same applies to u. The Greek "y" sounds very much alike the French "u" or the German "ü". And nevertheless, the letter is calley My in both languages. --93.232.217.12 (talk) 20:57, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  (The letter's names) 

message: Why say English-speakers “mu” instead of “my”? I mean you say system, not 
sustem, then why hubris and mu? Thank you. Kuddeldaddeldu (talk) 11:14, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: well "my" wouldnt be the right way, it would be "mi" because the other way would be "my" as in my car, my pencil, etc. Y makes a different sound in English than it does in Greek.Grk1011 (talk) 00:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And the same applies to u. The Greek "y" sounds very much alike the French "u" or the German "ü". And nevertheless, the letter is calley My in both languages. --93.232.217.12 (talk) 20:57, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why mu? 

message: The following contrib was so obscure that it took inordinate effort to even be satisfied that it was a single contrib. I have therefore not only improved the formatting (esp by collapsing what were improperly marked up as 4 'graphs into one well formatted one), but also taken the unusual liberties of making insertions (identified with italics) and striking thru troublesome characters and words.--Jerzy•t 07:41, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In Modern Greek, the name of the letter is spelt μι and is pronounced [mi].
But spelt is the wrong word. It should be "spelled".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.127.223.98 (talk) 14:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I use spelled and spelt contrastively. "I spelled the word wrong", but "the word is spelt correctly". VIWS talk 02:49, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Past participle of "to spell") 

message: While there is obviously a healthy amount of debate here as to the pronunciation of the letter in isolation, I have yet to see an explanation in the article itself as to how mu is pronounced within a word. This seems as though it would be more pertinent information to a student of Greek than the other, more esoteric, facts provided.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.153.143 (talk) 22:49, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: i have tried manyalue of mu  place but not able to find the v
so  request you tlue o kindly issue the value of mu
thanks 
sir please  reply as soon as possible  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.23.167.0 (talk) 10:50, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  i want to know the vlue of mu 

message: ~VKB 0937 UT 16.7.2012 - could this be considered?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.195.185.229 (talk) 09:38, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  sound when spoken 

message: Is this actually what the section is meant to be called? 09:18, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meat science? 

message: Unless this is something about the topic I'm not understanding, is there supposed to be (meme) in the introductory text, or is this different to the common usage of the word meme?
Itskieran (talk) 20:05, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word meme? 

message: Both Greek letters M (m) and N (n) ought to be pronounced Mi (mi) and Ni (ni) respectively. There are no letters Mu and Nu pronounced letters in the Greek alphabet. --Aristo Class (talk) 12:16, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much writing for a simple thing 

message: So there are two unicode characters for mu:
* µ (U+00B5 "MICRO SIGN")
* μ (U+03BC "GREEK SMALL LETTER MU")
Apparently some software consider them identical when they are used as a translingual sign. I wonder if there is any situation in which one is the correct or preferred one. --Z 11:24, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems that μ (U+03BC "GREEK SMALL LETTER MU") is always preferred, even when the meaning is 10-6. See micro-. catslash (talk) 11:43, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: There are two unicode characters for mu