Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and properly modern)

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> Elsewhere in Europe, however, AFAIK the Byzantine & modern Greek system was
> retained.  I had thought that German influence in classical scholarship had
> ensured that the Henninian pronunciation had not found a foothold on the
> American side of the pond and that the Byzantine oral stress was still used
> there.  Young Muke's email had shattered yet another myth I entertained
> about Americans: so the Henninian barbarism have reached there   <sigh>
Well, after all, the Greek derivatives in English, and Greek proper names
in English, are given Henninian stress:  "A'cropolis", "Alex'ander" (not
"Alexan'der"), whether Across the Water or not.

I have never studied Greek, so I don't know what
pronunciation is taught here, but I bet it's a reconstructed classical one.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter

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