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Ω ω

It’s very difficult to form words with only one vowel, so we’ll skip to the very end of the Greek alphabet and pick up this vowel, which sounds somewhat like the vowel in “port” [This sound is a bit shorter than the vowel sound in “home.”]

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Π π

You probably have perceived this consonant in math problems in the past (it's the number that comes out to approximately 3.14159). It has the sound of the first consonant in please, and please, please, set aside whatever your math teacher told you this letter’s name was. Your math teacher was thinking in English–but this is all Greek.

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