There were no classes in Greek when I went to school - not during school hours. There was a boy in high school who took Greek after class - I don't recall what kind of offering this was. He was a mot intellectual type and very pleased with such a distinctive undertaking.
That's why we all got a jolt of Greek letter education this week to find out the Omicron is a Greek letter. It follow Nu and Xi. Xi is the first name of the Chinese president, so this would be weird - retrieving COVID and the Chinese President on a Google search. And why not "nu"? - it is too easily confounded with "new". Can you imagine the automatic spellcheck fixing that all the time?
But WHO says it is because the agency's best practices for naming diseases suggest avoiding "causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups." So I guess Delta airlines is not anything to worry about.
We missed out on iota, as in not one iota - this expression comes from the Bible (Matthew 5:18): "For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."
I see a this as a great Holiday gift and ornament on the tree this year - it could have circled variants "of concern". It will be joined by the "Dog Pooping 2020" ornament made by a B.C. woman who can't keep up with demand.
I can't see putting that on the next tree anywhere near the cookies and cakes and donuts below. This is one of the holiday trees in the Fantasy of Trees this year.
