# Bob's your Uncle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645 "2025-04-04T21:08:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/61 "2025-04-13T20:03:59Z")
Apparently, β serves more as a v sound than a b sound. In the transliteration, the π is the labial plosive while the μ imparts voicing to it, from the labial initial position. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/62 "2025-04-14T05:52:18Z")
The title phrase is supposed to originally refer to [British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_your_uncle), after he appointed his nephew to an important post. Interestingly, a friend could legitimately say that “Bob _was_ her ~~uncle~~ great-grandfather”. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645/63 "2025-04-14T06:25:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > “Mpomp”? That doesn’t even vaguely resemble Greek. But that’s how Greeks render the “b” sound of other European languages, just as they render “d” as “nt”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobs-your-uncle/1016645.md?page=3)