Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:11:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000411151102.B2130@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <xzpsnwuml8m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:08:25AM %2B0200 References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <8cq15m$1mbp$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6nm94j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000409211409.D234@parish> <xzpsnwuml8m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:08:25AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> writes: > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:17:48PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > How's he gonna spell d?mon? > > Probably "demon". The use of ae-dipthong (sp?) > > Diphthong. One of the weirder words of the english language. Well, it's easy to see why this sounds `weird' in English. It's a Greek word, written with the proper latin characters in order to *sound* the same as it does in Greek. `Diphthongon' in Greek means something that is constructed by two `Phthongos'. The latter meaning a single letter, one can see that diphthongos means (in Greek): two-letters. It seems then, that this is an English word, borrowed from Greek. Of course, Greek has borrowed from English, French, Italian, etc. too. But that is another story. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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