Re: Filk fragments
Dan Goodman wrote:
spelling conventions for words taken from Greek make no sense to me.
Given that most of English is Germanic with an overlay of Latin or
Latin-derived material, it isn't entirely surprising that the borrowings
from Greek are notable exceptions.
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