Mine is insidious as it sounds cool and is apt in our modern world of fast news

  • @Trail
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    27 months ago

    The Greek pronunciation is actually Haos (with a heavy H like hotel), so this is where H is coming from. It’s the C that is actually added in order for English to attempt to pronounce it closer to the original sound (and fail as per usual. Look up paranoia for example).

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      So it is! I don’t know why I remembered it as kaos (καος with the accent somewhere, I don’t know Greek, modern or ancient). It’s χάος. Makes total sense.

      Still think it sounds better in English!