Κασσιόπη

Exasperating thread on the Corfu Grapevine, to which I won't even provide a link because I wash my hands of the whole bunch.

Question was, is it Kassiόpi or -opey. FFS, it's on every road-sign.

Simon succinctly provides grik, which should have ended further discussion.

Mais non, on they drivel.

Then people start chipping in with 'Does it matter?'

By the Linguaphone of Leonídas! Of course it matters! You're fronking living in the country, you have the chance to learn this most beautiful and subtle of languages.

I fear more than despair: I have a glimpse of the grunting Midian hosts that must always have been out there.

There is no hope.

Baddeley link - that link there isn't about 'oaf' or 'off' pronunciations but a page I moaned about not finding of Aleko Dasmaskinos teaching Greek in Sally's bar.

Actually, it's a pretty damn'd fine page in toto and I was reading it for its beauty and precise writing and then scrolled down to the lesson. SB goes into the lesson in fine detail. I shall stick to vague outlines and only home in on goofs or tittle-tattle of my fellow pupils.