[Zope-dev] Misspelling?

Thilo Mezger thilo@eevolute.com
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:01:18 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> > It is actually daimwn (with an omega. At least in modern Greek) but if I
> > keep going on I will probably daimwnize everyone on this list.
> 
> I thought the omega was a constraction of two 'oo's originally, which
> would translate to 'oo' at least in Dutch. 

i think that the transcription of old greek to latin letters is more or
less standardized and both omicron and omega are transcribed to a single
`o' when writing (at least in german) but omicron is pronounced with a
short `o' and `omega' with a long `oooo'.

anyway... :-)

thilo