Correct use of apostrophes.

[sleipnir214]

ESquared
Nah... I say we keep going until CajunCenturion makes us stop.

stella740pl:
To the best of my knowledge, Greek has never used X (chi) to represent "ks". This site says it's always been used as a k-like sound.

It may be that the Russians are disambiguating the sound that "x" represents in words like xorosho.


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[Stella740pl]

sleipnir214,

First, I am not sure that the Greek word for "dry" used "X" (chi) for first letter.

Second, if it's not "KS", it sure doesn't sound "Z", as you pronounce it in English, any way. Probably, in Russian it was pronounced the way Latin/English "X" is pronounced in the middle/end of the word - the way the second "X" sound in "xerox".

And third, Russian word for xerocopy has neither Latin "X" nor Cyrillic letter "X", it has two letters, corresponding to "KS", not "Z" or "CH". It's just that I cannot really reproduce Russian or Greek letters here.

 

[ESquared]

You can do greek with TGML

[α][β][γ][δ][ε][ζ][η][θ][ι][κ][λ][μ][ν][ξ][ο][π][ρ][σ][τ][υ][φ][χ][ψ][ω]

And you can paste in unicode just fine to get Cyrillic:

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[Stella740pl]

ESquared,

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Your Cyrillic appears as a long row of question marks, no matter what encoding I use. And I cannot post letter by letter in any language, I need to work and to take care of my family once in a while, too.
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[ESquared]

Interesting, I see what you mean. In preview mode they looked okay.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Another brand name that is often mis-used in the UK is "Tannoy", although probably not half as often as Hoover is.

I read somewhere that "Escalator" used to be a brand name, too, but maybe they forgot to trademark it?

I think anyone who has ever watched Alan Partridge will know the Tannoy skit ;o)

Dan

 

[CajunCenturion]

Nah... I say we keep going until CajunCenturion makes us stop.

Now is probably a good time.

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