Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:24 |
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On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 06:18 AM, Roger Mills wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
[snip]
> sphere, sphinx and related sphincter, Sfax-- certainly of non-native
> origin,
> though I'm sure they've been around a while. Sometimes it's hard to draw
> the line. If there are any Greek words with initial sigma-theta, then I
> suppose we could pronounce them too /sT.../.
Quite right - and there is one such word: 'sthenic' /'sTEnIK/ = strong,
robust,
morbidly active <-- ancient Greek: sthenos ="strength".
Ray
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