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Greek Letters

<blockquote>But this — this Tau — I would give him a worse designation, but that is a manifest impossibility; for without the assistance of two good presentable members of your Estate, Alpha and Upsilon, he would be a mere nonentity — he it is that has dared to outdo all injuries that I have ever known, expelling me from the nouns and verbs of my inheritance, and hunting me out of my conjunctions and prepositions, till his rapacity has become quite unbearable. </blockquote>

Lucian’s Trial in the Court of Vowels is unpopular because it requires a knowledge of the Greek language, a dying art. It is funny though for those of us who were blessed enough to have studied that great language. BTW, each Greek dialect uses the letters in a different way.

http://lucianofsamosata.info/TrialInTheCourtOfVowels.html

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