Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Mercersburg Review, 1860, Vol. 12: Edited for the Alumni Association of Franklin and Marshall College
It is a general opinion, prevalent in America, that the difference in the pronunciation of the Greek as it is spoken by the natives themselves and by strangers, who only learned that language through their study of the classical writers of antiquity, consists principally in the iotacism or the pronunciation of the vowel Eta and several diphtongs, as i or iota, thus producing a predominant i-sound, which seems unpleasant to the foreign car.
But how great is the astonishment of the northern trav eller, when, on his arrival in Greece, he discovers in the pronunciation of the native Greeks an extraordinary vari ety of sounds and modulations of the voice and an emphasis, a quickness, an accuracy of tone and accent, altogether strange to his ear, and which he needs must own to belong exclusively to the organs of a southern nation and partien larly to the spirited Hellenic race and which no doubt is as ancient as their language.
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