Iskousogos

[Alan Hartley]

> I had thought this was in
> opposition to ou and ei, but when I looked up psilon I also checked the
> letter articles and it appears that epsilon is plainer than the newfangled
> eta and upsilon means vocalic u as opposed to w.

And postclassical Greek pronunciation evolved pretty radically. In
modern Greek, e.g.,

i, ei, E (eta), oi, u (upsilon), ui are [i]
e (epsilon), ai are [E] (eh)
ou is [u]
au is [af], [av]
eu is [Ef], [Ev]
Eu is [if], [iv]

not to mention the consonants.

Alan