Ancient Greek for Everyone
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1 Vowels I. α ε η ι ο υ ω Spell it like it sounds! As we learn the ancient Greek alphabet, it is important to note one essential principle about Greek spelling: ancient Greeks spelled words the way that they were pronounced. If the pronunciation of a word changed, so too did the spelling. Consider the verb present (preeZENT) and the noun present (PREsent), which are spelled alike but pronounced differently in English. In Greek, such words would be spelled according to their pronunciations: “pree
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| Subject | N/A |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 27 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |