At school they taught us what the official classical pronunciations were, so we'd know what they were - and they always sounded bloody silly: "wayni, weedy, weaky" for "veni, vidi vici," and so forth.

But the correct way to pronounce it, of course, was the Church Latin way. After all, that was the only place where it was still a living spoken language, and that's what matters in these things.

Is there any reason to think the academic pronunciations are any closer to the way the Romans actually spoke the language?