Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct etc

Raymond Brown scripsit:
> At 1:57 am -0400 13/5/01, John Cowan wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >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.
>
> But that's simply because we got them from Latin, after the Romans had
> borrowed them from Greek.
Not always.  "Perithecium", for example, is not recorded before the
19th century: it is obviously Greek, despite the Latinized ending,
but bears the Latin stress:  /pErI'TiSi@m/.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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