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CPEBachIsDead t1_iqts5up wrote

Reply to comment by Remon_Kewl in Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’) by Sphaerocypraea

And do you suppose Thomas More was intending to harken to the Greek of his day or of the ancients?

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Remon_Kewl t1_iqtu3km wrote

I'm gonna guess neither? Or he didn't really care, since utopia first of all isn't the greek form anyway, it's outopia, as others have said in here. Besides, it's not like the english pronunciation of eutopia is closer to the ancient Greek one than "eftopia". The point of the post the person above the one you answered to was that utopia and eutopia would be pronounced the same, which is false.

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