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mu

UK/muː/ US/mjuː/ fairly common slang

noun

1.

the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet

Origin

Coined by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864 (through mistranslating a word in the Mayan Madrid Codex using the De Landa alphabet), as the name of a land that had been submerged by a catastrophe; later identified as Atlantis by Augustus Le Plongeon.

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