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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that you mention it.. he's indeed called Aristoteles in my language.. never noticed the spelling difference in english!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons.

Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I know I'm furthering the immature narrative, butt:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like we did him a favor.