How Many Greek Words Are Used in English? List of 150,000
In a typical 80,000-word English dictionary, about 5% of the words are directly borrowed and another 25% are borrowed indirectly from Greek. So, 30% of English words are…Greek!… Read More
In a typical 80,000-word English dictionary, about 5% of the words are directly borrowed and another 25% are borrowed indirectly from Greek. So, 30% of English words are…Greek!… Read More
Malakas is a versatile word following some rules: When referring to someone you hate, “Malaka” means “jerk“, “asshole” or “motherfucker”, while when describing someone you want to despise, it translates to “wanker“, “idiot” “stupid” or similar terms.… Read More
More old photos from Greece of 1903-1930, photos by Fred Boissonnas that show a quiet and different world… Read More
The Philhellene Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas(1858-1946) was the first foreign photographer who traveled so much in the Greek land from 1903 and for nearly three decades following… Read More
Here are some elder Greek pictures from 1900 to 1930, photos from the period before the first world war… Read More