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Are The Straights OK?

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, modern pronunciation agrees with us ("FEE"), but apparently ancient Greeks would have pronounced it "FEY" (or "FEY-EE", I can't quite tell to what degree epsilon-iota was a diphthong).

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

when I see epsilon-iotas on campus, they tend to be diphthongs.