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I've been wondering a lot about certain English words from Greek, and whether or not they were badly constructed. For instance, "perihelion" —I find it very odd that there should be an 'h' in the middle of the word. Would not "perelion" be more Greek? And as for "aphelion"?
Another one that comes up in palœomagnetic geology is "anhysteretic," but surely "anysteretic," that is ανυστε?ετικόν, would be much better, no?
Perihelion -- perelion?
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Re: Perihelion -- perelion?
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