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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 8092566, member: 72790&quot;]Yes, also notice that Greeks at that time used the Roman letter C where the Romans used the letter S. Actually, the comparison is not entirely accurate. What it indicates is that&nbsp; the letters C and S were pronounced the same way, or were similar in sound, but that this really is comparing two unknowns. We cannot be certain how the letter C was sounded.&nbsp; It may be that the Greeks pronounced the letters differently and were not letters indicating that they were pronounced the same way in say, Carthage and Antioch. I remember a professor of Greek telling the class that comparing names like this showed that Latin was pronounced a certain way based on transliterated letters in Greek. It also seems that in one of Attic comic playwright&#039;s plays&nbsp; sheep bleated, Beta eta eta,&nbsp; Beta eta eta. Now either Beta and eta were were prounced as short A, (ah) or Greek&nbsp; sheep baa differently from those of other lands. Modern Greek is no help in this study as I found out in Athens&nbsp; some time go. (fortunately the Greeks are kind and accomodating people). Fascinating study. I hope to find the answers like this in Elysium one day, or if things terminate differently, perhaps in Hades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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