Reply To: Naming your fish?
alpha (a) in Greek is “ah”, like in all. Only Yanks like me brutalize a into a nasal aaaaa (sounds even better when a Brit mimics the way we say it!).
omicron (o) in Greek is I think formally supposed to be a shorter o than its big brother omega (o-micron = tiny/micro o, o-mega = giant/mega o), but I’ve also read that even by a couple thousand years ago, their pronunciations were blurring together toward the long o.
I’d say “tall-ose” (without biting the long o too hard — it is the micron-o) with emphasis on the first syllable, but that’s mostly a guess. If I found it spelled in Greek, then there would be accent marks to help with the emphasis.