The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...
A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
Regular readers of this column (or just casual glancers at my bio) know I live abroad in Cyprus, a small Greek-speaking island in the Mediterranean. That means I’ve spent the last several years trying ...
There are more than 300 Turkish words that are used in the Greek language. After all the Greeks were under Ottoman occupation ...
It’s all “Greek” to ABC Family, which has picked up 10 more episodes of the college-set drama. ABC Family initially greenlit 10 segs of “Greek”; the additional order, confirmed Tuesday, brings the ...
Shaq tried a little something extra to relate to Giannis Antetokounmpo on Tuesday, and it did not go well. Antetokounmpo joined TNT to accept the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. Shaquille ...
A resounding efkharisto (thank you!) to scores of readers who shared with me their Greek food go-tos: from the corner gyro joint to the Greek diner hangouts to the sit-down-dinner places where I might ...