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Karen:

--- Quote from: loftyscot on July 11, 2019, 12:56:33 AM ---Very pleased to report that a spectacular thunder and lightning show is now passing over the village at midnight. It's been brewing for a while but it  is now letting rip. Wow :-)

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We watched it brewing up over the sea, whilst at the Nafsica, the lightening was spectacular. Got back to Condor, one almighty crack, out went the lights and down came the rain! But it was short and sharp and yes it is much fresher today, but quite windy :)

Jimbo:
On the trivia side of things, Spiros and I had a long discussion on Facebook about the spelling of the name. Many sites will show you that the princess (daughter of king Alkinous) who clothed Ulysses when he was shipwrecked on an island which may or may not have been Kerkyra on a beach which may or may not have been Agios Stefanos, was called Nausicca. Not the best name for a taverna, since it sounds a bit like chucking up.

But - the problem arises from the Romans. The Greeks didn't actually have a C and the Romans didn't have a K - the Romans, and later scholars, consequently used a couple of Cs to make it a hard K sound. After a bit of research I established that Homer actually spelled it Nafsika. Amazingly enough, O Spiros accepted this - those who know him will understand what I mean!

gillie:
Yes, Roman letters Nau... doesn't sound great in English for food! Helped a lot when I was learning some Greek to know that what looks like "au" to us is sounded as "af" or sometimes "av" in Greek.  Helps with a lopt of other Greek words when you know that! Can't wait to get there! Not long now.

BarbaraG:
Fascinating Jimbo. As a keen Agatha Christie fan, I have often wondered about the story of Nausicca, as a clay model of her head features in “The Hollow “.

Jimbo:
I was brought up in church - literally, my father was a preacher - and I well remember St Paul droning on about Epidaurus, pronounced epeedorruss. Many years later I went to the wonderful theatre there and learned it was epeedavros. We seem to pronounce most ancient Greek names incorrectly. Try mentioning a Greek hero to Dimitris in Little Prince and he will soon wince and tell you how to say it.Still - we're not quite as bad in this respect as the Americans, who systematically (and sometime dogmatically) mispronounce just about everything. The reason why Spiros at the aforementioned Nafsika often changes the spelling of his name to Speros is because he was educated in New York, and they insisted on pronouncing his name Sp-eye-ross!

All those years I talked about Hades (Hell - the god of the underworld) only to find out it was not Hay-dees, but Ee-ar-theys.

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