Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
Ernest Cline wrote:
It also doesn't account for boustrephedon writing direction either.^^^^^^^^^^^^^
boustrophedon
Ah well. I once referred to Herodotos throughout a posting as Herotodos (googling for it gets 17 hits, the first two of which are mine (blush)). Not surprising when you pronounce it [EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]@s], as I do. (" = primary stress, 4 = fishhook r, 3\ = rhotacized reverse epsilon, A = alpha).
Herotodos - 17 hits Herodotos - 8,730 hits Herotodus - 528 hits Herodotus - 165,000 hits
Obviously the Latinised version, with -us instead of the original Greek -os, is much the most widely used.
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