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Re: VMs: Phrase
Ah! Thank you for the correction. The word was probably abbreviated on the web page
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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/03/03 00:51 AM >>>
3/11/2003 12:14:46 AM, "Larry Roux" <LRoux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>"episit" is a greek word, from what I can tell.
No Greek word ends in tau (t). Or beta, or gamma, or delta, or...
A Greek word can only end in a vowel, or in a member of a
very small subset of the consonants. Sigma is one of them,
and so are nu and rho, psi, and xi. Tau is not.
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