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To: AnAmericanMother
I was trying to make a pun but it was a bit too obscure.

Plato's dialogue about Socrates' last day and his death is called the Phaedo after one of the men present on the occasion who is later reporting what Socrates said--in Greek the diphthong in Phaedo/Phaidon would sound like English long "i." The usual English pronunciation of "Phaedo" is "feedo" rather than "fido."

42 posted on 07/17/2012 7:53:30 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
I got it. I was just pulling your chain a little bit.

4 years of Classical Greek, for my sins. Lowest grades I got in college.

43 posted on 07/18/2012 4:46:38 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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