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To: Desdemona
Which proper pronunciation? There's church Latin, classical Latin and whatever the music director thinks is correct. No two are the same.

Ecclesiastical (or Medieval) Latin has a completely different pronunciation from Classical Latin as we now understand it. A friend, a few years older than I, attended highschool when the switch was made in teaching back to classical. Thus "civis", pronounced "cheevis" became "key-wis", etc.

Friend accepted it to a point, but then exclaimed to Sister Anna Roberta, "Sister, I refuse to believe that Julius Caesar said 'Waynie, Weedie, Weekie'!"

35 posted on 10/24/2005 8:34:02 AM PDT by Cincinnatus
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To: Cincinnatus
Which proper pronunciation? There's church Latin, classical Latin and whatever the music director thinks is correct. No two are the same.

Weally?

38 posted on 10/24/2005 8:53:09 AM PDT by TradicalRC (I trust my Church more than my government; why would I grant more power to the state?)
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