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in reply to a message by Tempestgirl
The opinions on that one vary. I've had Latin and we were tought to pron it as IE, on another school they learned AY. In my opinion pronoucing it as EE is very 'American/English'.
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The Romans themselves would have used the IE version, same sound as in my or high. Youleeoos Kighzar. I think that the Seize 'er version is pretty well standard in the English-speaking world, not just the US.
There is a rather welcome movement towards using the Greek versions of names rather than the Latin ones where one is dealing with a Greek original ... not sure where it started, but it does make sense; on that reading, Aesop will be written Aisop and pronounced Eyesop instead of Eesop nowadays, though I don't see it catching on in everyday usage any time soon. Caesar of course never had a Greek pronunciation, so he's out of it!
There is a rather welcome movement towards using the Greek versions of names rather than the Latin ones where one is dealing with a Greek original ... not sure where it started, but it does make sense; on that reading, Aesop will be written Aisop and pronounced Eyesop instead of Eesop nowadays, though I don't see it catching on in everyday usage any time soon. Caesar of course never had a Greek pronunciation, so he's out of it!
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