[B-Greek] Grammatical question: double dots over a vowel
babc2 at comcast.net
babc2 at comcast.net
Tue Jun 27 14:19:39 EDT 2006
On 27 Jun 2006 at 16:54, frjsilver at optonline.net wrote:
> The diairesis is merely a conventional way of indicating that the
> vowel so marked is to be pronounced as a separate syllable, and not as
> part of a dipththong. It's done this way even in Modern Greek.
>
> Father James
>
And used to be quite often in English. I don't know just when they
stopped using the dieresis over the second 'o' is cooperate.
Barbara D. Colt, babc2 at comcast.net
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