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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
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In article <3p6akn$mfn@clarknet.clark.net> (David of Bedlam) thedavid@clark.net
() writes:

>I've usually seen it spelled "epsilon" and to me "hybris" sounds fey.

Different letter.  "e psilon" is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, while
"u psilon" is the 20th.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
