Re: OT coins and currency

Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:
> >
> >
> >>I notice that officially the Greeks alone are permitted to dispense with
> >>those two vowels and call it /ev'ro/. But the rest of us must have 'eu'.
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Orthographically, the Greek is
> > EYP&#937;, not EBP&#937;,
>
> Yes - but EY is /ev/ or /ef/ (depending upon what follows). /ev/ does
> not have to be spelled EB in Greek.
My point was that the Greek form has an orthographic diphthong just the Latin.

[snip]> > and phone*ically the Swedish is [Evru]*, so Greek
> > doesn't seem unique in either respect.
>
> I did not know that - good for the Swedes!
The treatment of |eu| in Greek-derived Swedish words is erratic, but [Ev] is
probably the commonest.

Back in the day, some Swedes used an English-inspired [j8\:ru], but that
pronunciation, thankfully, seems to have died out.

                                          Andreas

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