[B-Greek] ETA

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 16 13:40:54 EDT 2006


Just did a quick check.  Providing Wikipedia is more reliable than my memory on this point, you are absolutely correct.  I don't know why I was thinking he was Aussie.
   
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"Dave Smith (REL110, 211,212)" <rel21x at charter.net> wrote:
  George,

I think that F. F. Bruce was born in Elgin, Scotland, in 1910: "In the
neighborhood of Elgin, my native city...," as he says, In Retrospect, p. 1.
His father was also Scottish, a native of Aberdeenshire.

Dave Smith
Hudson, NC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George F Somsel" 
To: "Gerry" ; 
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 12:52
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] ETA


> I don't have a sure answer to that one, but I'll hazard a guess. I
wouldn't be surprised if it were a Briticism which may well be shared by the
Aussies (Bruce was Aussie) and is also shared by Bostonians here in the US.
Did you ever notice in speaches by Kennedy he says "Americer" rather than
"America"?
>
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> Gerry wrote:
> I was looking through Ward Powers Learn To Read NT Greek the other day
with my daughter when he mentions that the ETA should be sounded like the
word "There".
> For example we would then sound Jesus like "yair- soos" or ORGH like
"Or-gair" rather than Yay -sous or Or-gay
>
> I ask Ward about this and he made mention that F F Bruce
> mentioned that the ETA was pronounced more like the "ea" in Bear.
> What I don't understand is that whilst Bruce certainly does say that, how
does the "R" sound fit in?
> Bruce says that "ETA" sounds only like the "ea" in Bear, not actually
rhyme with it so that the "r" is also sounded.
>
> Can anyone throw any light on that?
>
> Gerry Todd
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