Thank you for the clarification! I did wonder if there was a difference in this instance between Ancient and Modern Greek, as there often is, but I was a smidge too tired to research it.
LEE-də is growing on me a tad, though I'm trying to decide whether it
really matters that it sounds almost identical to "leader" in my accent.
Ottilie

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