Re: English pronunciation of Latin

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From: Robert Stonehouse
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00

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Avi Jacobson <avi_jaco@netvision.net.il> wrote:
> the only English speakers who do NOT pronounce
>Latin this way: musicians

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.
ew65@cityscape.co.uk

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From: ew65@cityscape.co.uk (Robert Stonehouse)
Subject: Re: English pronunciation of Latin
Date: 1997/01/31
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