[B-Greek] Greek trivia: all the letters...

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue May 6 10:03:22 EDT 2003


At 9:38 AM -0400 5/6/03, bgreek at ntresources.com wrote:
>I just ran across a note from Bruce Metzger to the effect that 1 Peter
>3:19-20 contains all the letters of the Greek alphabet (*Interpretation,* 1
>[1947] 473, citing Georg Pasor--one of the oldest Greek grammars, 1655).
>
>Although this passage might be useful the first day of class, it's not an
>ideal passage for beginners, even for an inductive approach. Does anyone
>know of other *short* texts which contain all the letters of the Greek
>alphabet? (The shorter, the better.)

Well, Rod, there's always the text, "The quick brown fox jumped over the
lazy dog ..." -- just convert the Roman letters to Greek in any Greek font.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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