Re: Greek (and WordPerfect) (was Interface font)

> I was under the impression that ancient Greek didn't have
> accents at all and the accents and stuff didn't come around until church
> Greek.

True, Classical Greek had no accents, and only capital letters. All major
cities had their own alphabets(!), slightly different. Accents and breathings
were introduced in the Byzantine era to help foreigners learn "proper"
pronunciation. How close that pronunciation was to e.g. Plato's, nobody
knows. Lower case letters appeared about the same time, for ease of writing.

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Grant MacEwan College
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