In a message dated 5/24/2000 4:17:14 PM Central Standard Time, hildenbr at Haas.Berkeley.EDU writes: << Oh dear, I seem to be drawing on the past lately! Goodrick used to say that most Greek words are pastel. There are very few psychadelic words in Greek. Now remember this was in the 70's! 8-) >> Yes, koine has changed dramatically since then!! :-) gfsomsel