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[OM] Re: Greek pickiness [was: some more OT stuff]

Subject: [OM] Re: Greek pickiness [was: some more OT stuff]
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:58:41 +1100
Perhaps you should have read down further where they explain that the  
diacritical 'asper' is actually on the iota and is usually dropped  
because the expression exists in modern Greek, where all diacritical  
marks have been dropped.
Picky enuf for y' ? :-)
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



On 24/03/2007, at 6:56 AM, Chris Barker wrote:

> The Wiki entry
> omits a fairly important accent on the initial 'o', the one which
> indicates how to pronounce it.



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