Eating Leps

[Ron Gatrelle]

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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Eating Leps


many hairy snips

> As for the debate on Latin pronunciation:  I studied classical Latin in
> high school, also "just a few years ago..." (tee-hee), and I was taught
> the pronunciation for "ae" was a long "i."  However, when I studied
> systematics in college, the "ae" was pronounced like a long "e" in every
> class I took, regardless of who was teaching it.  Anything ending in an
> "eae" was pronounced like TWO long "e's."  Go figure!
>
> Mary Beth Prondzinski
>

I have heard that the "ae" at the beginning of a word is pronounced long
"e" but at the end long "a"?  But what I really want to know is why all the
common names are pronounced so differently in Boston?

By the way, old Charlestonian pronunciations are very similar to that of
old Boston. When I move here over 30 years ago it was heard a lot - it is
now a disappearing dialect. For example "beer" is pronounced the exact same
way Charleston  and Boston. Out and about in old money downtown Charleston
is oot and aboot.

Ron

PS    It must be raining a lot of other places too, or we are not getting
out butter around much.


 
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