Re: Quick Latin pronunciation question

In a message dated 5/25/2008 01:05:53 AM Central Daylight Time,
conlang@CASSOWARY.ORG writes:


> In Latin, how were ii and uu pronounced? I think they usually occur
> between a root and an affix, for instance "tuum" or "Patricii". "uu" in
> English borrowings is of course pronounced as either /ju:@/ (continuum)
> or /ju:/ (vacuum) with presumably no historical reason. I can't think
> of any English words with "ii" in them from Latin though.
>

Tristan,
I found almost 500 English words with "ii", most of them apparently from
Latin, and scientific in nature.  Two fairly common ones are Pompeii and radii.

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