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Thread #144011 Message #3327956
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
23-Mar-12 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: How to pronounce this Latin phrase?
Subject: RE: BS: How to pronounce this Latin phrase?
Going back to my schooldays again, as I was learning Latin much closer to the 1920s than most here, I think.
We were taught that words beginning with c were to be pronounced ch, au was taught as in "cause", ae was taught as in "ale", not "aisle".
However the motto under discussion was definitely ""Day MORE-too-iss KNEE-hill KNEE-sea BOW-noom. (that's "bow" as in arrow)"", exactly as Joe had it.
Unless we have somebody older than me who remembers his Latin classes, I think that's as close as you are likely to get to academic Latin of the twenties.
For a dead language, it is surprisingly changeable.