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The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 32, August 8, 2004, Article 14 MORE ON LATIN PRONUNCIATION Ken Berger writes: "In response to Dave Kellogg's comment, the C was only hard in classical Latin not in vulgate Latin." Dan Demeo writes: "No, no, no, no. I believe Celtic has its origin in Greek, through Latin, and maybe German--Celtic, Keltic, hard C. Civilization, sure, from Latin, and civis, citizen, was pronounced something like ke-vis, not si-vis, but we've had 2000 years of improvement since then, and it came to us through French--do you really want to try to correct the French? Worse yet, Latin had no J, so Julius Caesar was actually yu-li-us ky-sar--enough, already." Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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