Re: Russian names (was: Re: A perfect day...)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 4, 2000, 12:35 |
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At 23:52 +0100 3.2.2000, Irina Rempt wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:
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>> Greek: XPICTOC ['xristos] -- i.e. most Greeks so called are not actually
>> named "Christ"! :-)
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>Christ, to be exact, is called [xris'tos]; I don't know whether to
>spell it with eta or iota, because all the Greek we sing is in
>transcription :-)
Slap myself on head! I was so hot on the pun so I forgot to point out that
they aren't in fact homonyms -- only homographs when written all-caps. It
is a iota, just as I wrote it. If you have an icon of Christ around you'll
probably see the abbreviation IHC XPI for IHCOYC XPICTOC.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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