vjmatty Posted July 15, 2023 #26 Share Posted July 15, 2023 5 minutes ago, John Bull said: Thanks for that, Ginny 🙂 The variety of Latin alphabet spellings of words - and especially places - in Greek, Arabic & other alphabets confuses me. Until I went there I thought Heraklion and Iraklion were two different places 🙄 Not my fault, Ginny - it's all Greek to me 😏 JB 🙂 Ah well, yes part of the problem is there are multiple ways to translate Greek (and I assume other cyrillic alphabet dependent languages) into Latin spellings. For example, the island of Chios, where my father is from, I have seen spelled as Chios, Khios, Hios and Xios. The Thira-Fira thing took me a while to remember which is which. What finally did it is remembering that I "fear-a" walking down the path to the port without stepping in mule droppings. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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