Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct etc
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 16, 2001, 9:56 |
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At 20:20 2001-05-15 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>My point was that Greek words borrowed into English are stressed according
>to Henninian principles, and that this had something to do with the
>dominance of Henninian pronunciation.
Hardly. Greek loans in Swedish are also stressed according to Latin rules,
in spite of Latin accentuation thankfully never having been applied to
Greek here.
/BP 8^)>
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