Re: R: Re: R: Re: New to the list

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mangiat wrote:

> Woah, what pronounciation do you use? In Italy everyone uses the Church's
> pronounciation, which is based, as far as I remember, on 6th century's Latin
> (basically Proto-Romance). This includes:
For about a century everyone in the anglophone countries has been taught
the "reconstructed classical" pronunciation:

ae /ai/, oe /oe/
c /k/ everywhere, g /g/ everywhere except gn /Nn/
short vowels /a/ /E/ /I/ /O/ /U/
long vowels /a:/ /e:/ /i:/ /o:/ /u:/
bs /ps/

However, in borrowed phrases the "English" pronunciation is preserved:
de facto /di f&ktow/, sui generis /sui dZen@rIs/, etc.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter