Re: Greek letters ...

> > > As we seem to have alot of experts on Greek writing on the list, I dug
> > > up a little question ...
> > >
> > > In a book on Christian symbols, I found several examples of Sigma
> > > looking like a Latin "C". Was this common during Imperial Roman times?
> >
> >Actually, it's been common for a very long time.  The West exaggerated
> >the upper curve on one form of the small sigma.  In the East, there were
> >several versions, including the version that virtually eliminated the
> >upper curve.
This 'lunate sigma' is why Cyrillic uses 'C' for /s/, right?

     *Muke!
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