Re: OT: What color is blond(e)? (was Re: anti-Sanskritism and more)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:03 |
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John Cowan wrote
> Mark J. Reed scripsit:
>
> > Which means you were taught the "restored Classical" pronunciation of
> > Latin - or possibly the Ecclesiastical, but I'm not sure how -ae is
> > pronounced in the latter.
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> In Eccl. Latin, ae = oe = long e; e.g. "caelum" [tSe:lum].
>
Aside from Latin class, most of my experience with Latin as She is Spoke
comes from watching Christmas Eve Mass from St.Peter's, and recordings of
liturgical works.
Depending on the nationality of the choirs involved, one hears a variety of
pronunciations, but yes, things like [Eks'tSelsis] ['tSe(:)li] and ['bone
volun'tatsis] are general. In some recording or other by a French choir, I
noticed they were pronouncing "u" as [y] with fair regularity.
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