Help me on "hupo" vs 'hypo" stasis

[prodromos]

that’s an interesting little factoid

My wife's father and his family grew up in Constantinople before the Turks booted them out. My wife says her grandmother never called it Constantinople, instead always referring to it as "the City"

 

[rusmeister]

Istanbul is what the Turks thought the Greeks called Constantinople, when they simply referred to it as "The City", "Η Πόλη". People would say they were going, "to the city", which in Greek is "εις την πόλυ", "ees tin poly". For those who don't know Greek, when "n" is followed by "p", the "p" becomes pronounced as "b", so the pronunciation is "ees tin boly"

It’s easy enough to see how it may have developed that way.
My own thoughts on that are the reasons for pushing for the official public change after WW1, and what the city should be, which is not what it became, the same thinking that thinks the Hagia Sofia ought to be a Christian cathedral, and not an Islamic mosque.

 

[ArmyMatt]

My wife's father and his family grew up in Constantinople before the Turks booted them out. My wife says her grandmother never called it Constantinople, instead always referring to it as "the City"

that’s interesting