What English words of Greek origin don’t sound like they come from Greek?

By: Nick Nicholas | Post date: 2017-02-07 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Ancient Greek, English, Linguistics

Glamour, as a Scots mutation of Grammar, from the same Education = Witchcraft equation that gave us Grimoire.
Diocese. I had no idea until a month ago that this is just dioikēsis “administration”.
For more palatalisation catching me unawares: cemetery from koimētērion.
Dram, and for that matter Dirham, as derivatives of drachma.