> So even people who say oMYcron don't think that's how it was pronounced in Greek. I agree; and I also agree with the earlier commenter that the "ai" diphthon

> So even people who say oMYcron don't think that's how it was pronounced in Greek. I agree; and I also agree with the earlier commenter that the "ai" diphthong is an English thing (I don't know if it's restricted to British English, or whether it's also currency in the USA). It might even be a thing that's bound to English private schools; but note that English state schools have rarely taught classics. This is why the BBC Pronunciation Unit's version jars; it sounds to my ear uneducated. Incidentally, Boris Johnson pronounces it the BBC way; he studied Greek at the same kind of school, and then at Oxford, and must have learned to pronounce it ohMYcron, as in MYcroscope. I only did a term of Greek; I don't remember being taught anything about accents.