Re: Latin pronounciation

[Steve Ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Philip,


~Sounds like~ he was of swedish or normadic descent!
(at least northern europe?)

ek_Wall & ek_Vall are the same also there.   = ~Oak Valley~

Best to you & yours
-=se=-

you wrote:
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 Date: Mon,  5 Feb 2001 13:48:31 -0500
 From: pm232@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 To: voynich@xxxxxxxx
 Subject: Latin pronounciation
 
 I have heard stories about an old botany professor at Cornell (long 
 before my short lifetime) who was so scrupulous in his Latin 
 pronunciation that his colleagues and students couldn't understand what 
 he was saying much the time. When speaking of grapes, for example, he 
 would say "wee-tis" (Vitis) and "wee-ta-kee-aye" (Vitaceae)instead of 
 the common but incorrect "vy-tis" and "vy-tay-see-ee". 
 
 -Philip Marshall
 
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