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From: alderson@netcom8.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Modern Greek pronunciation
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In article <33EBA803.6B546AB1@lcc.net> Danny Wier <dannyboy@lcc.net> writes:

>Ellas.  (There is a "rough breathing" mark on the initial E, indicating the
>older name, Hellas, but it is silent in modern Greek.)  It is pronounced
>['Ellas] (or maybe ['Ell@s]).

Actually, there is an accent on the alpha:  [Ella's].
-- 
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_
