[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dystopia"

[Mark Mandel]

Without checking the sources, I would assume that "dustopia" arose from
transliterating the Greek letter upsilon "υ" (uppercase: "Υ"), pronounced
in classical Greek like German "ü" or French "u", as <u> instead of the
more usual <y>.

Mark Mandel

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 11:55 PM James Eric Lawson <jel at nventure.com> wrote:

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> ...
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> Both articles supply illuminating historical details, as well as some
> discussion of the 1747 "typographically puzzling rendition of *dustopia*"
> (quote from Budakov, 2010).
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