Re: Tatius - Tay-sh-us or Tat-ee-us??

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:19:00 -0700


donald_at_... wrote:
> In message <E1BGARw-0006MP-Bi_at_...> "Andrew
> Solovay" writes:
>
>> But that's just the question--do we pronounce the Lunar pseudo-Latin
>> names in the Germanic, "this is our best guess at authentic Latin
>> pronunciation" style--i.e. "TAH-tee-us"?
>>
>> Or in the traditonal English, highly-elided style--i.e. "TAY-shus"?
>> (a la "Statius" or "Pontius"--and honestly, when have you ever heard
>> him called "PON-tee-us"? It's always "PON-shus")
>
> Wherever that pronunciation comes from it's not English, I
> would suspect Church Latin. I'm not even aware of any dialects
> that pronounce "ti" as "sh".

Um... didn't you just use the word "pronunciashun"?

(I think the Church Latin pronunciation would be "PON-tsee-us", not "PON-shus". But I could be wrong. I know I've sung "sub Pontseeo Pilato" one time or another...)

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