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Comment author: thomblake 20 September 2011 04:09:10PM 0 points [-]

Both words come from Greek, but one word meant "purple" and the other meant "sound".

Wiktionary claims "Phonecian" was from a greek transliteration of Egyptian, and does not mention "purple".

But yes, "phonetics" clearly came from the word for "sound".