Interesting choice to pick "Omicron" instead of "Nu," which news outlets had been expecting them to use. Perhaps this allows them to avoid having to use "Xi" as the name of a Covid variant, which would have been...inconvenient for the WHO.
No, what’s it called?
The nu variant
Yeah, does it have a name?
It’s nu
Yeah I know it’s new but what do they call it?
What does who call it?
That’s what I’m asking you! What does WHO call it?
Maybe they wanted to avoid all the lazy puns. A pretty significant part of the world speaks either of those two languages.
Also, both the masculine and feminine forms, “nu” and “nue”, are pronounced exactly the same. “Le variant nu” in French would always be ambiguous.
I speak Portuguese and I can assure you what you’ve written is funny nonsense. No one would care about this when making the 1000th internet meme.
Perhaps there is a second meaning I don't know?