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Letters That Don't Make Any Sense

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Dr Adequate
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10-06-2010 1:17 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Tram law
10-03-2010 4:04 PM

And how about the second epistle to the Thessalonians?
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Do we really need two? I think not.
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10-06-2010 1:52 AM 		Reply to: Message 18 by Nij
10-05-2010 11:23 PM

Φ
Perhaps a better question would be "who the hell decided to use PH when translating instead of the normal bloody F like everyone else?!"
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The answer, of course, is the ancient Romans. The fact that they did so when they had a perfectly good letter F tells us that in classical times the Greeks must have pronounced Φ not as an F as they do today but as an aspirated P (/ph/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet).
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