From: Apostolos Syropoulos (ijdt.editor@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2010 - 13:35:15 CDT
2010/9/19 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
> Clearly there does seem to be missing a Greek letter, which should
> behave exactly like the Latin letter. I can't say
> if this is a contamination of the Greek script by the Latin script
> (the book itself is in French), or if finally the
> ligature was also used in Greek books. I think that such famous
> authors were knowing Greek enough to have seen the
> ligature used in pure Greek alone.
>
All I can tell that ου is a diphthong and since it is very common people
have been using the form you are mentioning. The following shows that
it was something used in Greek text alone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_print_1566_Aristotle.png
A.S.
-- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, GREECE
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