A Handbook of the Modern Greek Spoken Language With Exercises

II. Spoken Greek marks no distinction of length in vowels, like that which we hear in foot and fool, brig and beech: in like conditions of accentuation, all vowels and diphthongs are of the same length. If they are nu accented, they are short; if accented, there is a little difference in length, but not so much as in English or German.