To: snuffy smiff
It’s all part of the rich pageant of slow change to languages everywhere. Not sure if it got the V sound in more recent Greek, or the transliteration from Greek to, say, English, transformed it to the B sound.
30 posted on
04/05/2021 1:18:50 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Ancient Greek beta had a "b" sound (shown by Roman transliterations of Greek words). At some point it shifted to a "v" sound, so in modern Greece they tend to transliterate names as they are pronounced. Ancient historians use the spelling Lesbos when dealing with ancient times.
To: SunkenCiv
Sounds (and smells) like BS to me!
38 posted on
04/05/2021 1:37:28 PM PDT by
snuffy smiff
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