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Well, Greek used to be taught in UK schools, though of course most of the population never got that far! So it would have been the version that people were familiar with, or at least used to hearing. But as the number of schools teaching Greek started to fade (early 20th century at a guess), so American pop culture started moving in - barbershop quartets singing "Goodnight, iREEN" for instance. So it was probably a natural process from two sides.