Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 26, 2008, 15:22 |
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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)
Not IME; those are /'i@daj/, not */'iajdaj/.
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".
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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