Speak English using Greek words!

In order to note the big penetration of the Greek into the English language, please, read the speech that Xenophon Zolotas, a Greek economist at the time who later became prime minister of Greek democracy (1989-1990), gave in the International Monetary Fund on 10/02/1959.

The whole speech is consisted by English words that all have Greek origin:

Kyrie,

It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies, that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria.

Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic.

In our epoch, characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists.

Numismatic symmetry should not yperantagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.

These scores are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halkyonic.

The history of our didymous organizations in this sphere, has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization, will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organizations in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies.

I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology.

In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you kyrie, and the stenographers.