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[terryfish]

9a The P in Peterhouse (3) R-O. Just can's see what this is... ROO? RIO? Thanks

[Lie-in King]

9a Rho (Greek 'P') - in 'peteRHOuse'

[terryfish]

But P is pi in Greek.... Rho is actually 'r' although it's written as a p ??

[Lie-in King]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rho

[terryfish]

That link is fine... but the answer is still wrong as far as I can tell.. 'P' is not rho, it's phi, although rho, which is written as 'p' is pronounced as an 'r'.

[Lie-in King]

I can only go with what the dictionaries tell me, my Classical education is non-existent :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Rho is represented by a capital P

Peterhouse starts with a capital P and also contains Rho

[terryfish]

Thanks - I'm sure that I'm right and I think that Dean Mayer has got confused about this one!

[Mamyalynne]

He has a blog, write to him.

[dr b]

You're correct that rho corresponds to R, but it is represented by a P, so the clue is OK. From Chambers:

The seventeenth letter (Ρ or ρ) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to R