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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2035751, member: 19463&quot;]This happens all the time.&nbsp; Languages use alphabets that include letters that are needed for their words.&nbsp; Greek has a K that sounds like our hard C or K.&nbsp; Latin only uses a K for a few foreign (to them) words but their C is hard like the Greek K.&nbsp; The one that comes to mind is kalends (first day of the month).&nbsp; English has a C and a K with the same sound and an S and a C with the soft sound making you wonder why we need a C at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; Foreign proper names always have a problem when translated.&nbsp; Were you taught in school that there always is a U after a Q?&nbsp; How about Iraq and Qatar?&nbsp; Do you want to make it worse?&nbsp; Greek had a letter Q for KW which began the name of the city we call Corinth and shows the Q on many coins.&nbsp; They dropped the letter before long for most words but the Q remained as the abbreviation for Corinth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There was a time when English scholars insisted on Latinizing all Greek names.&nbsp; That gave us Cyzicus for Kyzikos.&nbsp; Technically, I see the coin uses a xi rather than zeta so maybe it should be Kyxikos???&nbsp; Today it is more politically correct to spell Greek things in a Greek manner.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m OK with that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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