[B-Greek] pee or pie
Curtis Hinson
curtis at curtishinson.com
Sat Jul 8 02:40:20 EDT 2006
There's no real need to wonder or debate about this sort of "issue" as
Greek is not a dead language. Why ask scholars when you can find
someone who learned Greek on mom's knee and hear how they say it? The
pronunciation has changed in fairly minimal ways over the centuries.
People, whatever their credentials, who wish to make up alien ways of
pronouncing the language are, well, making things up and should be dealt
with accordingly.
Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com
Mark House wrote the following on 7/7/2006 6:23 PM:
> As Hendrickson Publishers' Greek editor I'm currently working on a book that
> will feature a CD with audio files to aid in learning the Greek alphabet and
> pronunciation. One of the issues that has arisen in reviewing the files is
> the pronunciation of the names of Greek letters ending in i (xi, pi, phi,
> chi, psi). When I studied New Testament Greek, I learned to pronounce these
> letters using the long iota sound (xee, pee, phee, chee, psee). This makes
> sense, since some NT Greek grammars, when naming the letters, spell them out
> in Greek using the letter in question plus an iota. However, it is
> apparently common in classical Greek circles to pronounce these letters the
> way they are pronounced in science (all rhyming with "pie"). I'm interested
> in finding out whether the latter pronunciation is also used commonly in NT
> Greek classes. Our classically trained author uses the latter pronunciation,
> but will opt for the former if it is more commonly used in NT contexts.
> Thanks in advance for your input.
>
> Mark House
> Hendrickson Publishers
>
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