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Re:Omicron Variant: Early Analysis by rp1 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @12:33AM (#29357758)
Xi is the spelling of China’s leader’s last name. Nu just sounds like the word “new”, but is longer than omicron.
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Re:Omicron Variant: Early Analysis by Pokepokalypse on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:17PM (#29370695)
Only in Romanized Chinese; which is an English-approximate spelling of how it would be pronounced. (sort of).

Spelling is different in Chinese, of course, which has fuck-all to do with the Greek letter, or how it would be pronounced in English.

People bringing up the Chinese leader pronounced name's English spelling, to confuse it with a Greek letter, are really reaching hard.

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