[B-Greek] BH BH, the bleating of an ancient sheep
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Fri Jul 17 11:25:25 EDT 2009
Hi, Mitch,
Danish sheep say MH MH, but I don't know when they learned to speak Greek -:)
Maybe as they were led to be slaugthered?
Iver Larsen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: 17. juli 2009 04:03
Subject: [B-Greek] BH BH, the bleating of an ancient sheep
>
> To demonstrate that ancient Greek writers did NOT pronounce Greek as the
> Moderns do (at least in some cases), a text was sighted which described the
> sound sheep make. The ancient (comedy) writer identified, so it was argued,
> the sound of a sheep as BH BH (bah, bah).
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