Posted by Janey on March 24, 1999 at 09:25:50 {MWfZlKV6ncg82}:
In Reply to: *Okay Big Mouth posted by Real JW on March 23, 1999 at 21:03:43:
Is this actually true? I was taught - and a check of the Greek grammars on my shelves confirms it - that an initial letter "iota" ("i") is pronounced in Greek as an initial "y" in English. This would mean that it NOT pronounced as "ee." The word is NOT a trisyllable! In addition, it is only in recent times (a few hundred years) that the Greek "Iesous" came to be written with a J in English and pronounced differently. The letter J is the last letter to be added to the English alphabet. Originally it was just a capital "i,"( which is why it is placed next to "i" in the alphabet) and was pronounced as an initial "Y" just as in Greek. So, in fact, the word "Jesus" would have been pronounced "Yesous."
What Greek grammar do you have? There is no such thing as an iota and eta dipthong!
It just gets worse for you folks.
Janey