I think that this MAY be true, but how do we KNOW it for sure? What I said
yesterday was that editors, by putting a smooth breathing before the
upper-case Iota, seem to be indicating pronunciation as a vowel. That the
Romans used an I for both vowel and consonant we do know, but what evidence
have we for Greek pronunciation of initial I as a consonant at any time?
Carl W. Conrad
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