Re: Trema (was: French spelling scheme)

At 2:43 pm -0400 4/5/01, Steg Belsky wrote:
>On Fri, 4 May 2001 14:14:57 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
>writes:
>> Raymond Brown wrote:
>> > As for why the Hellenist Greek grammarians used a double-dot, I
>> don't know.
>
>> I don't think anyone does.
>>
>> --
>> There is / one art             || John Cowan
>> <jcowan@...>
>-
>
>I'll theorize then.... :-)
>Maybe the Greeks used *two* dots to show that the *two* letters were
>*two* distinct sounds?
...and you may well be right  :)

Ray.

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