I just received your rather rude reply to my suggestions. Please delete me from your e-mail list. Thank you, Joel Dressler Μπράβο, Gisela! This is an excellent website that you and your colleagues have developed. I am always dragging out a particular binder whenever I have to look up grammatical points such as these. I have only two possible suggestions: The cardinal numerals in Greek for one, six, and eleven (but not nine) all begin with an epsilon and a rough breath mark, i.e., ενας = henas; έξη = hexe; and έντεκα = hendeka. Also in the Greek feminine surnames the stress changes from the antepenultimate to the penultimate, i.e., Παπαδόπουλος (masc.) to Παπαδοπούλου (fem.). Believe me, I learned this in an embarrassing situation teaching English in Athens. I had this one class of middle-school age kids in which there were a brother and a sister. When I called out the roll before class, I pronounced Demetrios' surname correctly (Παπαδόπουλος) but when I got to his sister, Helena's name, I kept saying the masculine form and the other kids in the class would all giggle. Out of cultural ignorance, I didn't pay much attention to their laughter. Finally one day out of exasperation Helena, who sat in the front row of the class, looked up at me and shouted, "Κυριε, με λένε Ελένα Παπαδοπούλου! Παπαδοπούλου!! This distinction had never before occured to me before being around Greek-Americans because Greek-American women seldom take on the feminine form of the surname but adhere to the father's masculine form. Thanks again for passing along this most useful website! Joel Geia sas! I would like to announce the launching of my Guide to Greek Usage in Cataloging website housed at http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/greek/. The guide (a first on the Web) is designed to be a central, one-stop, resource for anyone inputting Modern Greek text. It is a modest effort, with what I hope to be the most practical and pertinent information needed to transcribe Greek bibliographic detail. The guide has the complete ALA/LC Romanization table (alphabet and numbers) with accompanying examples explaining the how-to*s and when*s of the rough breathing mark; the Romanization of certain letter combinations; Greek numerals in headings and descriptions, and a thumbnail *overview* of Greek personal names for authority work. It has been an arduous journey and I could not have completed it without the help of CoHSL, and a number of people from Technical Services, and at the New Media Center at Princeton. I hope it will be useful and I would very much appreciate input from members of this list on how or what might be needed to make the guide an effective one. I also use this occasion to ask if there has been any further development on the tour of the Greek collection at Library of Congress. I have visited Library of Congress several times but never been offered such an opportunity to view the collection. I also look forward to meeting Joel David Dressler, my equivalent at L.C. Is the tour still being considered? Lastly, If a number of us who met in Athens for the GRN meeting are in D.C. in June, perhaps we could meet to review where the project presently stands and/or hear of any developments that have occurred since December, 2006. I will be there, I note George Paganelis and Harry Leich will too. I look forward to seeing you there. Thank you, Gisela Kam Modern Greek & Romance Languages Cataloger Firestone Library Princeton University _______________________________________________ CoHSL-list mailing list CoHSL-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/cohsl-list _______________________________________________ CoHSL-list mailing list CoHSL-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/cohsl-list