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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 02:36am on 2006-01-22
A sigma is a sigma, but as far as I know, you just don't get capital digammas, because that letter was obsolete by the sixth century BCE. (We'll gloss over my inability to pronounce a final /w/ as a glide, rather than as a signal on how to pronounce the preceding vowel.) And if H and F are Greek letters, I think it becomes SNSMU OW TEE STATS.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:07am on 2006-01-22
I was going to type "SNSMU" but decided to give whoever lettered the credits a break and acknowledge that upsilon sometimes gets transliterated 'Y' as well as 'U'. (And when you compare modern pronounciation to Homeric, I guess the sound drifted more y-ward as well ... along with about half the other vowels...)

I thought the capitals were older than lowercase. (I'm off to Google and Wikipedia to look that up now.)
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