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StavrosK, I spent a moment saying both and we have been saying it your way. We've been saying: po as in police, lis as in lisp I have heard that a valid pronu

• StavrosK 12y ago
  The "o" in "police" is long, you need a short one. The English pronunciation is what you would transliterate as "poulis" (can't write IPA on the phone, but it's a short o followed by a oo sound). In Greek, the o is as in "hot" in duration, but not in sound (not close to the "a' sound). There's only one way to say it in Greek (the one I posted above), I suspect that the person who instructed you to pronounce it as in "hot" meant the duration. I can't think of an example of an English word with a pure "o" sound at the moment, I'm afraid. You're going to have to listen to my pronunciation above to get it right :-P "O" as in "hot" is fine, as long as you don't pronounce it too much on the "a" side.