Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 26, 2008, 15:45 |
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Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > Does this also apply to the many family names in -Ciidae? (eg.
> Tropidophiidae,
> > Brontotheriidae)
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> Not IME; those are /'i@daj/, not */'iajdaj/.
Thanks. The final /aj/ does surprise me - I'd expected /i/.
While at it, how about the botanical -aceae?
> Also (still IME), anything that's spelled -ii and pronounced -/aj/
> can only be a fake word. The faux-Latin plurals of "Elvis" and
> "virus", for instance, are most plausibly spelled "Elvi" and "viri",
> not "Elvii" or "virii".
The *real* fake-Latin pl of "Elvis" being, of course, _Elves_.
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Andreas Johansson
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