🚀 go-pugleaf

ccardona@mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Cristobal A Cardona) wrote:

>Anders Blehr (ablehr@sn.nono) wrote:
>: Robert Stonehouse wrote:

>: > Does anyone else find it annoying to have Latin sung as if it were
>: > Italian, in cases that obviously demand that it sound like English? I
>: > can even think of a case where the name Lucinda was sung Luchinda,
>: > though there was no Italian, Latin or any such thing in the song.
>: In which cases is there an "obvious" demand that it sound like English
>: more than Italian?  Or Latin, for that matter?  Why not /lukinda/, and
>: why not the Italian pronunciation?
>: - Anders.

>I may be totally wrong but aren't in Latin the two acceptable pronunciations for C
>/k/ in Roman Latin and /ch/ before i and e in Medieval Latin ?
>Therefore pronouncing Lucinda in English /luSinda/ would be totally incorrect?

It is not a Latin word! It is an English name, not one of the most
common but not very unusual. People who have it pronounce it with the
stress on the middle syllable and a soft C, which is surely
unexceptionable.
ew65@cityscape.co.uk