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Alan Moss <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Nov 2000 10:26:48 -0000
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Robin Mitchell-Boyask wrote:

>I can pull rank here: my full sig file lists me as Chair and Associate
>Professor of Classics.  I'd suggest turning Naxos into an adjective (since
>we're talking about a label designating a recording).  We'll then take the
>neuter plural (on the grounds that the closest one gets to recordings in
>ancient Greek are books, biblia), and, drum roll please, the result is
>Naxia.

I can pull rank here.  Mine is the sort that goes with file.  Somehow,
you've all managed to get it wrong.  Naxos is already a plural.  I have
Weetos for breakfast, then I listen to my Naxos.  Very few people have only
one of these excellent recordings, which is why you hardly ever hear of
just one Naxo.

It's the same with Chandos.

Naxos is a variant spelling of nachos, nothing to do with Aegean isles.

Alan Moss

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