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of accent. Are we to go back now and change all these 

 words, or are we to write Hekior, the proper noun, and to 

 hector, the verb ? 



Again , this reform cannot be consistently carried out. Call 

 Hector again ! Would "E/cTwp recognize himself in Hektor, 

 and yet know not Hector? Is it consistent, is it worth while, 

 to substitute a /-, in semblance of the Greek, for a c which 

 has been sanctioned by English literature so long, and yet 

 leave untouched the Latin-English Hf Are we to give up 

 the digraphs ph, t/i, ch and ps in Greek words and go back to 

 <^, B, X ^^^ '/'•^ Must we vary the form of e so that some 

 belated Greek shade may be able to discriminate between 

 f] and ef Are we to give up Bacchus, which everybody 

 knows, and lay ourselves open to an appearance of being too 

 intimately acquainted with the jolly god's ways \>y writing 

 him down as Bakchus, Bakchos or Bakxos — or how ? 



In fine, the Latin representation of Classical Greek names 

 is sanctioned by the uses of good literature, by the consis- 

 tency of its process, by its conformity to our own methods of 

 spelling Anglicized words of Greek origin, and by the spell- 

 ing and consequent pronunciation of so many such names 

 already a part of our modern literary culture. 



