Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:56 +0200, steef wrote:
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:44, David R. Litwin wrote:
> > On 15/04/06, Hodgins Family <ehodgins@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> > > So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour?
> >
> > That is, in fact, a lower-case letter gamma. The word is dialogue in Greek,
> > "dialogos" from (approximately) dia, two and logos, knowledge.
> >
> no, no, no. dia means *through* in ancient greek. duoo (fonetic) = two.
"through knowledge" makes more sense than "two knowledge".
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