Re: WHAT calendar for the current year 2012

Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:

> 2008/2/1 R A Brown <ray@...>:
> > I suspect that baptisms in Greece will use the Koine forms of names and
> > not the modern. E.g. Γιάννης will have been baptized as
> Ἰωάννης.
>
> Quite so. (Though without the breathing, if he was baptised after
> 1982.) I think that his identity papers will also show Ιωάννης.
> Similarly with Γιώργος / Γεώργιος, etc.,
> and I think that
> Κατερίνα
> will have been baptised Αικατερίνη as well.
A Greek friend of mine is called
&#922;&#945;&#964;&#949;&#961;&#943;&#957;&#945;, but her passport indeed says
&#913;&#953;&#954;&#945;&#964;&#949;&#961;&#943;&#957;&#951;.

 Andreas

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