Re: R: Latin pronounciation

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:18:40 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> Mangiat wrote:
>
> > BTW,
> > which Latin pronounciation does the Catholic church use in
> Anglosaxon
> > countries? I think they'd use medioeval pronounciation...
>
> Yes.
A papal bull (?) issued by one of the popes of the 1800s (Pius something,
or maybe Leo...) said that Latin should be pronounced _more romano_ in
liturgies.  But since I was born after Vatican II (and wasn't even
Catholic until Easter 1996 anyway), I never got to hear much Latin.  My
own *personal* pronunciation is a little different:

ae = æ ("cat")
oe = ø ("deux")
ph = f ("feel")
th = þ ("think")
ch = x ("loch")

And c before e, i and y is tS, and tia is tsja, just like modern
pronunciation...

This is merely to help me remember spelling of words and allow myself to
be more conservative about Greek loans, which of course are copious in
ecclesiastical texts.

But in Sunday Mass, having English and Spanish is as close to Latin as
I'm probably going to get.

DaW.