Heard: "loci" with [k], not [s]; cf. "fungi" with [Ng], not [nDZ] [NT]

[Jonathan Lighter]

You mean it isn't homonymous with "Loki"?

That's how I've always said it.

And I got an A in geometry. Eventually.

JL

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:17 PM, Scott wrote:
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> > Not two words one usually hears in conversation; however, it seems to
> > me that here in Montana the pronunciations you indicate are usual. In
> > fact, ISTR a lame joke: "He always orders his pizza with mushrooms;
> > he's a real fun guy!"
> >
> > Scott Swanson
> >
> And if those unsoftened velars were good enough for [iulius kaisar]
> they're good enough for me!  (OK, I admit I do soften those velars myself,
> but I would fight to the death your right to retroactively harden them.)
>
> LH
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