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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3040301, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_phonology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_phonology" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_phonology</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Those interested in but new to the topic might enjoy the above link if it does nothing other than point out that there is a subject here that some people study to levels you might have trouble accepting and feel a need to produce terms that serve little purpose other than separating those who know from those who don&#039;t care.&nbsp; You are authorized to use a dictionary reading this article but it becomes reasonably clear if you stop and try out the various classes of letters and how to make them.&nbsp; Most of us were using the letter &#039;F&#039; long before we knew it was a &#039;fricative&#039;.&nbsp; You also will develop a new respect for ventriloquists who can make lip moving sounds without moving lips. </p><p><br /></p><p>The other point that I consider major here is that purists likely to correct your pronunciation worship the Attic dialect of the 5th century but conveniently ignore the fact that what they are reading may have been from Syracuse in the third.&nbsp; I liked this map from the above link.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/AncientGreekDialects_%28Woodard%29_en.svg/660px-AncientGreekDialects_%28Woodard%29_en.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It shows that people in the purple patch near the center might agree with what we term &#039;Ancient Greek&#039; but the others might think you sound funny in some way.&nbsp; In the twenty years I spent in the US Army, I met quite a few Americans that sure sounded funny to my Indiana ears but those people from Maine (not to be called Maniacs?) took the prize.&nbsp; I suspect attending the Olympics in Classical times was quite interesting in variety but every one of them thought they were speaking Greek.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Deacon Ray and others who study the Bible (Judges 12, 5-6) or those who doubt that dialect is a documented matter of life and death:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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