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Anders Blehr <ablehr@sn.nono> wrote:

>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?

Lucinda is an ordinary name with a well-known pronunciation and some
quite well-known people have it. There is no reason at all to make it
sound Italian - I do not know if it exists as an Italian name.

The obvious need is usually when the languages are mixed:

When others sing Venite exultemus
Stand by and turn to Noli emulare
For Quare fremuerunt use Oremus
Vivat Eliza for an Ave Mary
And teach those swains that lives about thy cell
To say Amen when thou dost pray so well.

(from Sir Henry Lee's poem on his retirement as Queen's Champion, set
by Dowland)

First, obviously Emulare must rhyme with Mary. Less obviously, the
I-sound in Vivat needs to be the same as that in Eliza. I personally
find the rest of it also sounds better, but less definably. For
example, O-ree-muss sounds more pious than Or-ray-moose on the high
note it is set to.
ew65@cityscape.co.uk