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- From: andrews@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Avery Andrews)
- Subject: >>Powell on Greek Alphabet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.033735.20291@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University CSLI
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:37:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.143512.16452@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
- rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (John Rickert) writes:
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- > Just curious, but what argument or arguments does Powell make
- >regarding digamma? It's needed at some spots for scansion, and yet
- >it isn't written.
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- Powell believes that at the time of transcription (in the 750-850
- period, though I don't have the book here & am hopeless at remembering
- dates) digamma was used by the aoidoi optionally, & written down by
- the transcriber, using waw (but digamma had disappeared in ordinary
- speech). The motive for thinking digamma was there is that the
- transcriber invented upsilon for the u-vowel, which would not have been
- necessary if waw wasn't being used for something else.
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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