[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dystopia"

[James Eric Lawson]

Having a smattering of Greek, my first thought was also along the lines
of a transliteration/case infelicity, which is not wrong. The Notes &
Queries articles supply historical-literary nuancing.

On 10/27/22 21:24, Mark Mandel wrote:
> 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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>> 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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