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Gian Carlo Macchi wrote:
> 
> In article <32EF84CC.56ED@netvision.net.il>, Avi Jacobson
> <avi_jaco@netvision.net.il> says...
> [...]
> >You neglect to mention the only English speakers who do NOT pronounce
> >Latin this way: musicians and Catholics -- both of whom use the Vatican
> >pronunciation, which is almost exactly the same as the pronuncation of
> >Italian.  (Minus the Italian distinction between [e] and [E], [O] and
> >[o], which gives the paradoxical Latin ['krE dO] vs. Italian [kre:dO].)
> 
> Avi, I'm Italian. However I don't see any difference between the
> pronunciation of the word credo in Latin and Italian, here in Italy.
> Actually the "Italian" or "Vatican" pronunciation of Latin (that is the one 
generally taught in schools in Italy) has always [E] and [O] for stressed <e> 
and <o>, while I would say that unstressed <e> and <o> are pronounced, like 
in Italian, as [e] and [o] (or better as an intermediate value between open 
and close). On the other hand in current usage any Italian native speaker 
will tend to use his Italian (or better regional) pronunciation of <e> and 
<o> especially in words (like <credo>) that are identical in Latin and 
Italian.

Alfredo Moscianese
Ancona
Italy