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Re: Roman Names

by Sadie (SadieMarch)

1/10/2006, 1:29 PM

I think the girls names could all work on people today, but the guys names would sound stuck-up

Laelia is pronounced Lie-lee-uh
In spoken Latin, the ae is pronounced like "eye" mostly

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- iris

1/10/2006, 8:28 PM

...the guys names would sound stuck-up

I agree. For some reason it's a lot easier to imagine a girl named Aurelia than a guy named Aurelius.

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
~Mark Twain

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