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Not so dumb!
In Response To: American: oh-MAY-gah... European: oh-meh-GAH *NM* ()

In Britain there seem to be two main variants - Oh-MEE-guh and OH-meg-uh (the capital letters indicating the syllable that is stressed). My 1973 (!) Oxford Dictionary shows OH-meg-uh and that is what educated people mostly say, I think. However Oh-MEE-guh seems nowadays to be more general and that may be the American influence; the dictionary should perhaps give it as an alternative now, if it hasn't already done so.

The version that Derek Ziglar refers to as European is not one that I have ever heard in Britain, but it may be common elsewhere in Europe.

Perhaps the "correct" spelling is whatever they say in Bienne, but we English-speakers would probably not be able to say it, anyway!

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