Re: OT: What color is blond(e)? (was Re: anti-Sanskritism and more)

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.
In Eccl. Latin, ae = oe = long e; e.g. "caelum" [tSe:lum].

> Latin borrowings into English which were made prior to the Great Vowel
> Shift underwent that shift right along with the native English words.
As I noted earlier, Latin *itself*, as pronounced in England, also underwent
the GVS.  Indeed, there was a period where English and Scottish Latiners
could not understand one another, because Scottish Latin did not undergo
the GVS even though Scots itself (mostly) did!

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