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Thread #47438   Message #707556
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
09-May-02 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Dives and Lazarus-or vice versa(Child 56)
Subject: RE: Help: Dives and Lazarus - or vice versa
WYSIWYG, as noted above, Reformed Academic and English Church Latin pronunciations usually are different. The vowels are not the same, neither are the vowel combinations.
Reformed Academic a, e, i, o, u = aah, ay, ee, oh, ooh.
To go on to the combinations, oe is pronounced as in toil in Reformed Academic but generally pronounced as in bee in traditional English or church English.
Consonants vary as well; c in R.A. as adopted by classical scholars is always pronounced as in cat (centum is always Kentum, etc. Cae is ky, Caesar is pronounced Kaiser. In other words, there is a split in pronunciation.
Having worked in systematic botany and paleontology, I use Reformed Academic. I would presume your husband would not use these pronunciations since they would confuse the congregation.