[B-Greek] PEI, FEI, XEI, KSI, PSI (was pee or pie)

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Mon Jul 10 12:38:43 EDT 2006


In 1881 there had already been a MAJOR decline in number of students who were 
fluent in Greek, right? But at the time of the founding fathers, children 
from middle class and wealthy families were EXPECTED to be fluent in classical 
Greek BEFORE entering university? And most of them just used an English Accent, 
not ever Erasmian?

Kat

In a message dated 7/10/2006 10:54:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dmiller at briercrest.ca writes:
This debate about Greek pronunciation has been going on for some time.
Consider Henry Schliemann, writing in 1881:



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