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From: Terry Silcock <>
Subject: [FENS] Xrist derivation
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:33:31 -0400

Toclarify the origin of Xrist and Xristopher

The greek alphabet has some additional letters to the
English (or American ) alphabet

these include

X pronounce CHI ; which is equivalent to our CH dipthong

hence in greek Christ was written

CHi = CH
Rho= R written somewat like a p;
Iota = I
sigma = S
tau = T

of course the letter P was pi; as used in mathematics.

other additional letters were

PHI = ph
PSI = ps
Eta = long E
Epsilon = short E
Omicron = short O
Omega = long O
Xi = our X,

I have not attempted to use the actual greek character set,
as they will doubtless be changed using e-mail.

there were no letters equivalent to: C, F, H, J , Q, V, W, Y

My fouryears study of Classical greek, nearly 50 years ago,
was not a waste of time avter all

Terry Silcock

researching RICHARDS in Doddington & Isle of Ely (1730 to date)
also interested in related families
BULL, GARNER, DAWBARN, ODLIN, NEWITT, GOUGE
INGLE etc

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