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| Article 3127 of sci.astro: | |
| Path: | icdoc!flamingo!zmacy82 |
| >From: | zmacy82@flamingo.doc.ic.ac.uk (D Spinellis) |
| Newsgroups: | sci.astro |
| Subject: | Re: Question For Greek Astronomers |
| Message-ID: | <1015@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> |
| Date: | 4 Sep 89 18:59:19 GMT |
| References: | <3280004@wdl1.UUCP> |
| Sender: | news@doc.ic.ac.uk |
| Reply-To: | dds@ecrcvax.uucp (Diomidis Spinellis) |
| Organization: | Imperial College Department of Computing |
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In article <3280004@wdl1.UUCP> gerolima@wdl1.UUCP (Mark K Gerolimatos) writes: > Do the Greeks call the planets by their Greek god names? > > I.e. do they say "Hermes, Aphrodite..." instead of "Mercury, Venus..." Yes: Name Spelling ---- -------- Hermes Ermhs Aphrodite Afrodith Gea Gh Ares Arhs Dias Dias Kronos Kronos Uranos Oyranos Poseidon Poseidvn Pluton Ploytn For the spelling I have used the alphabet as: abgdezhuiklmnjoprstyfxcv (alpha, beta, ..., omega) > -Mark Gerolimatos (I'm as much Chinese as I am Greek), Diomidis -- Diomidis Spinellis European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC) Arabellastrasse 17, D-8000 Muenchen 81, West Germany +49 (89) 92699199 USA: diomidis%ecrcvax.uucp@pyramid.pyramid.com ...!pyramid!ecrcvax!diomidis Europe: diomidis@ecrcvax.uucp ...!unido!ecrcvax!diomidis
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