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The curse of Thoth (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] diverging@piefed.social 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Θώθ has both upper case and lower case Greek characters, and a diacritic above the ω.

Throughout antiquity, Greek had only a single uppercase form of each letter. It was written without diacritics and with little punctuation.

I suppose it would have been written ΘΩΘ.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Also, single syllable words don't (typically) use diacritics in modern Greek either

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

About the upper case thing - was that something that was preserved until vulgar Latin? Seeing as everything is majuscule in like inscriptions and whatnot