Re: pronunciation question

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Justin Kelly — 8/30/2001 11:56:06 AM (archived)

Scraping together what I can of my 3 years of Highschool Latin I seem to remember 'V' always being pronounced as a 'W', iacta est (i.e.) I always herd it as "flaw wee ah puella est." and not "flavia puella est" as it was on paper.

but indeed there seems to be a bit of a controversy about this:
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinBackground/Pronunciation.html
I think I might want to go around pronouncing it 'Wallis Mar'r'rinerr'r'ris" (the r'r'r' being the "r" vibrato, not sure of the normal convention fo representing that) that is going to draw some stares ;-)

-Justin Kelly

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Valis Marinaris question - Justin Kelly - 8/30/2001 5:21:26 PM
- Valles Marineris, Mars - Formation Model(s) - Alex R. Blackwell - 8/30/2001 5:52:22 PM
  - pronunciation question - Robert - 8/30/2001 9:04:23 AM
    - Re: pronunciation question - Alex R. Blackwell - 8/30/2001 9:43:03 AM
      - Re: Embarrassing - FrankC - 8/31/2001 5:53:16 PM
      - Re: pronunciation question - Justin Kelly - 8/30/2001 11:56:06 AM
        
        Meum cerebrum nocet! - Robert - 8/30/2001 2:08:56 PM
        
        Re: pronunciation question - R-r-r-r-r-oberto - 8/30/2001 1:42:12 PM
      - two out of three - Robert - 8/30/2001 9:56:54 AM
        
        Schiaparelli - Alex R. Blackwell - 8/30/2001 11:01:08 AM

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