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I wonder why WHO skipped the letter Xi.
by ulzeraj 5y ago
I wonder why WHO skipped the letter Xi.
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- hjtkfkfmr 5y agoHow do you pronounce Xi? Nobody knows...
- NoblePublius 5y ago“Kai”
- mkl 5y agoYou're thinking of chi (χ), not xi (ξ) which is "ksai" or "zai". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(letter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(letter) Xi the surname is closer to "shee" when pronounced in English.
- mhb 5y agoAlso nu will be causing Airplane-esque confusion.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y agoI can see it as a Seinfeld bit too
- gojomo 5y agoFrom: https://nypost.com/2021/11/26/who-skips-two-letters-in-alphabet-in-naming-omicron-variant/ https://nypost.com/2021/11/26/who-skips-two-letters-in-alpha... > But the United Nations public health agency avoided Nu and Xi for two reasons, a spokeswoman told The Post. > > “[For] Nu the reasoning was people would get confused thinking it was the new variant, rather than a name,” Dr. Margaret Harris said. “And XI because it’s a common surname and we have agreed [to] naming rules that avoid using place names, people’s names, animal, etc. to avoid stigma.” The reasoning is sound, but if they'd annnounced the exact roster ahead of time, there'd be less suspicion. But WHO is really, really bad at public health communication!
- hobofan 5y ago> But WHO is really, really bad at public health communication! Who is?
- sneak 5y agoSometimes his wife comes and picks up the check.
- PedroBatista 5y agoI think is DOG.
- PedroBatista 5y agoLet’s see if Karen gets the same treatment.
- discordance 5y agoOr more like it’s common to one particular sensitive leader.
- callmeal 5y agoOr the approx 1,000,000 people with that last name. https://forebears.io/surnames/xi#:~:text=How%20Common%20Is%20The%20Last%20Name%20Xi%3F&text=It%20is%20the%20708th,reside%20in%20Sino%2DEast%20Asia https://forebears.io/surnames/xi#:~:text=How%20Common%20Is%2.... How Common Is The Last Name Xi? It is the 708th most widely held family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 9,415 people.
- discordance 5y agoYeah fair enough, but the other 999999 probably won’t cut WHO funding though
- baybal2 5y agoXi is by no means a common surname in China. Very uncommon.
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- koheripbal 5y agoFor the same reason they stopped naming after nation of origin... to sidestep politics and keep bad journalism to a minimum
- firekvz 5y agoExactly, but it's funny how now people somehow managed to make it about politics again haha
- tragomaskhalos 5y agoUs Greek nerds are agog to see if there will be vau, qoppa and sampi variants at some point if they start to run out of the standard letters.
- stupendousyappi 5y agoI believe they switch to Hebrew letters.
- rich_sasha 5y agoGreek and pseudo Greek letters are used for various financial quantities related to option instruments. Vega and vanna come to mind, or my personal favourite, vomma.
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