In the NYT, Jon Grinspan...

[Dan Goncharoff]

Does anyone actually know how Latin was pronounced?

By the ancient Romans, I mean...

DanG


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "graduate student in history at the University of Virginia," writes:
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> "… _beware_ any claim about this election that …"
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> This kid is probably much too young to be familiar with the _BEWARE
> OF_ THE DOG signs that were once so ubiquitous that even the most
> casually-learned person was familiar with the inscription bearing the
> Latin equivalent, CAVE CANEM. I was so young when I came across this
> that I thought that the Latin was pronounced "cave cane 'em" [kejv
> kejn at m].
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