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- From: andrews@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Avery Andrews)
- Subject: Re: Powell on Greek Alphabet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.034020.26274@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University CSLI
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:40:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.183821.26079@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
- Rich Alderson (alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU) writes:
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- >Let's be clear on terminology here.
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- >"Digamma" and "wau" are the names of a *letter*. /w/ is the phoneme they
- >represent.
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- >What may have been optional in the traditional songs was a phonetic realizati$
- >of the phoneme /w/.
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- oops.
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- >I don't remember, and don't have any references at hand, whether there was a
- >"w" series of signs in Linear B. Anyone?
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- There was, also in the Cypriot script (just peered in Chadwick, etc.)
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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