From: Peter Kirk ([email protected])
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 17:55:46 EST
On 24/03/2004 14:07, [email protected] wrote:
>Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
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>>Ernest Cline wrote:
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>>>It also doesn't account for boustrephedon writing direction either.
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>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> boustrophedon
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>Ah well. I once referred to Herodotos throughout a posting as Herotodos
>(googling for it gets 17 hits, the first two of which are mine (blush)).
>Not surprising when you pronounce it [h@3"A4@4@s], as I do.
>(" = primary stress, 4 = fishhook r, 3\ = rhotacized reverse epsilon,
>A = alpha).
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Herotodos - 17 hits
Herodotos - 8,730 hits
Herotodus - 528 hits
Herodotus - 165,000 hits
Obviously the Latinised version, with -us instead of the original Greek
-os, is much the most widely used.
-- Peter Kirk [email protected] (personal) [email protected] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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