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[Opinions] Re: Zoe, Zoé or Zoë?
in reply to a message by Lily
I pronounce them the same, and that 'same' would be ZO-ee. Since there were no accents, diacritals etc in ancient Greek, I can't see the point of introducing them now. They're mostly an invitation to error anyway: how many times have we seen what should be renay turned into what should be reneh because of a misdirected accent? What people would do, I can't say: but if they tried to pronounce Zoe to rhyme with Joe, then a simple correction should help them.
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