Re: Base 8 counting in Gevey

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:52:28AM -0500, Matthew Kehrt wrote:
> I think you're just showing off your knowledge of the digamma!
>
> What sound did it make, originally?  Wasn't it equivalent to the english
> w/u/v?
[snip]

Yep, I believe it was the labial approximant [w].

My Greek professor once joked about how the original root for "eipon" (to
speak) had a digamma "Fep-" (F=digamma). This is the same root for the
English word "epic". He said it's a good thing the digamma dropped out;
because otherwise we'd pronounce "epic" as "wepic", and a "wepic" just
doesn't sound as impressive as an "epic". :-)


T

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