Re: (PM) mulaw vs alaw (fwd)

John-David Childs (jdc@denver.net)
Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:27:50 -0700

On Monday February 2, 1998, Jake Messinger <jake@ams.com>
had this to say about "Re: (PM) mulaw vs alaw (fwd)":

> On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, MegaZone wrote:
>
> > It is actually the Greek charavrer 'MU' - but since that is basically
> > the english 'u' in appearance is is usually written in ASCII as u-law,
> > so people pronounce it 'you' instead of 'mu'.
>
> BTW...
> The CORRECT way to pronounce it is "moo-lah", not "Mew-Law". There is no
> "mew" sound in latin.

Silly boy, trix are for kids! The 'u' (aka "micro" in your math classes)
character is Greek, not Latin. Thus the correct pronunciation is "mew".

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