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Rules

A rather silly little task intended as a bit of fun as well as a simple exercise in text substitution. So, if you're a Greek speaker or an expert in ancient Greek, please don't take it too seriously!

As there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between the English and Greek alphabets, we need some rules:

| Greek letter | Corresponding English letter(s) |
| --- | --- |
| alpha | a |
| beta | b or v |
| gamma | g |
| delta | d |
| epsilon | e (but not ee) |
| zeta | z |
| eta | h or ee (but not ch, kh, ph, rh or th) |
| theta | th |
| iota | i or j |
| kappa | c, k, q or ck (but not ch and kh) |
| lambda | l |
| mu | m |
| nu | n |
| xi | x |
| omicron | o (but not oo) |
| pi | p (but not ph or ps) |
| rho | r or rh |
| sigma | s (but not ps) |
| tau | t (but not th) |
| upsilon | u or y |
| phi | f or ph |
| chi | ch or kh |
| psi | ps |
| omega | w or oo |

In the case of lower-case sigma, use **ς** when **s** is the final letter of an English word or **σ** otherwise.

Ignore Greek diacritics (accents and breathings) but use the same capitalization, spacing and punctuation as in the English text.

Example

English: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Greek: Θε κυικ βροων φοξ ιυμπεδ οβερ θε λαζυ δογ.

Task

Transliterate the following English text into Greek using the above rules:

```
I was looking at some rhododendrons in my back garden,
dressed in my khaki shorts, when the telephone rang.

As I answered it, I cheerfully glimpsed that the July sun
caused a fragment of black pine wax to ooze on the velvet quilt
laying in my patio.

```

If your language does not support the printing of non-ascii characters, then you can instead transliterate the following lower-case pangram:

```
sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

```

Just represent the Greek letters by their names in angle brackets. For example:

```
the dog => <theta><epsilon> <delta><omicron><gamma>
```

Reference

* Wikipedia: Greek alphabet

Other tasks related to string operations:

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* Array length
* String length
* Copy a string
* Empty string  (assignment)

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* Jewels and stones
* I before E except after C
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* XXXX redacted
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Song lyrics/poems/Mad Libs/phrases

* Mad Libs
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Tokenize

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Sequences

* Show ASCII table
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* Generate lower case ASCII alphabet
assistant
```
sub to-Greek (Str $string is copy) {
    my %pre =  :Ph<F>, :ck<k>, :ee<h>, :J<I>, :rh<r>,:oo<w>, :ph<f>, :ch<χ>,
               :th<θ>, :ps<ψ>, :Ch<Χ>, :Th<Θ>, :Ps<Ψ>, :kh<χ>, 's ' => 'ς ';
    my %post = :a<α>, :b<β>, :d<δ>, :e<ε>, :f<φ>, :g<γ>, :h<η>, :i<ι>, :j<ι>,
               :k<κ>, :l<λ>, :m<μ>, :n<ν>, :o<ο>, :p<π>, :q<κ>, :r<ρ>, :s<σ>,
               :t<τ>, :u<υ>, :v<β>, :w<ω>, :x<ξ>, :y<υ>, :z<ζ>, :A<Α>, :B<Β>,
               :D<Δ>, :E<Ε>, :F<Φ>, :G<Γ>, :H<Η>, :I<Ι>, :L<Λ>, :M<Μ>, :N<Ν>,
               :O<Ο>, :P<Π>, :Q<Κ>, :R<Ρ>, :S<Σ>, :T<Τ>, :U<Υ>, :W<Ω>, :X<Ξ>,
               :Z<Ζ>;

    $string.=subst(:g, .key, .value ) for flat %pre, %post;
    $string
}

my $text = chomp q:to/ENGLISH/;
    The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

    I was looking at some rhododendrons in my back garden,
    dressed in my khaki shorts, when the telephone rang.

    As I answered it, I cheerfully glimpsed that the July sun
    caused a fragment of black pine wax to ooze on the velvet quilt
    laying in my patio.

    sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
    ENGLISH

say "English:\n\n" ~ $text ~ "\n" ~ '=' x 80;

say "\"Greek\":\n\n" ~ $text.&to-Greek ~ "\n" ~ '=' x 80;

say "Or, to named characters:\n\n$_\n" ~
  .&to-Greek.comb.map({ .match(/\W/) ?? $_ !!
      '<' ~ .uniname.subst( /.+<?after LETTER\s>/).lc ~ '>'
  }).join
  given 'sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.';

```

Output:

```
English:

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

I was looking at some rhododendrons in my back garden,
dressed in my khaki shorts, when the telephone rang.

As I answered it, I cheerfully glimpsed that the July sun
caused a fragment of black pine wax to ooze on the velvet quilt
laying in my patio.

sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
================================================================================
"Greek":

Θε κυικ βροων φοξ ιυμπεδ οβερ θε λαζυ δογ.

Ι ωας λωκινγ ατ σομε ροδοδενδρονς ιν μυ βακ γαρδεν,
δρεσσεδ ιν μυ χακι σηορτσ, ωηεν θε τελεφονε ρανγ.

Ας Ι ανσωερεδ ιτ, Ι χηρφυλλυ γλιμψεδ θατ θε Ιυλυ συν
cαυσεδ α φραγμεντ οφ βλακ πινε ωαξ το ωζε ον θε βελβετ κυιλτ
λαυινγ ιν μυ πατιο.

σφινξ οφ βλακ κυαρτζ, ιυδγε μυ βοω.
================================================================================
Or, to named characters:

sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
<sigma><phi><iota><nu><xi> <omicron><phi> <beta><lamda><alpha><kappa> <kappa><upsilon><alpha><rho><tau><zeta>, <iota><upsilon><delta><gamma><epsilon> <mu><upsilon> <beta><omicron><omega>.
```