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December 5, 2021 | 12:00am

XI VARIANT. A man wondered aloud why pandemic scientists skipped Greek alphabet letters in naming the new COVID-19 variant Omicron.

A friend told him the World Health Organization skipped the letters Nu and Xi because Nu sounded like “new” and Xi might offend Xi Jinping of China.

“Ngano ma-offend man sila nga gikan man didto?” the man asked.

“Kabalo na ka,” his friend replied.

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