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The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 32, August 8, 2004, Article 14

MORE ON LATIN PRONUNCIATION

  Ken Berger writes: "In response to Dave Kellogg's comment,
  the C was only hard in classical Latin not in vulgate Latin."

  Dan Demeo writes: "No, no, no, no.  I believe Celtic has its
  origin in Greek, through Latin, and maybe German--Celtic,
  Keltic, hard C.  Civilization, sure, from Latin, and civis,
  citizen, was pronounced something like ke-vis, not si-vis,
  but we've had 2000 years of improvement since then, and it
  came to us through French--do you really want to try to
  correct the French?  Worse yet, Latin had  no J, so Julius
  Caesar was actually  yu-li-us  ky-sar--enough, already."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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