[adrianrocamora]

I agree that Greek might not be the best for people with a different linguistic background. By the way, did you mean Galois Theory? If it's OK to ask, what other languages do you speak mainly besides English?

[ordu]

Yes, I meant Galois Theory. I speak russian, and 'Galua' just letter-per-letter transcription from russian spelling.

[gonzus]

If you read that out loud as if it were Spanish, it would sound like the original French pronunciation for Galois. So, good job! :-)

[ordu]

Russian spelling is mostly phonetic. It tries to keep the idea of spelling that word is a program for sound making machine, which knows nothing about pronunciation of a particular word, just follow simple rules for interpreting letters.

As I understand, Spanish is much like this, it keeps spelling simple. If so, then there are nothing surprising that transliteration from cyrillic into latin make sense from Spanish point of view.

[adrianrocamora]

Ah, cool. Funny thing, in Chinese Einstein uses the character for "love" [ai] also because it's a phonetic approximation.