On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 20:28, Mia McDavid wrote: > > > Martin Wohlert wrote: > > > > > Well, I don't know much about those languages, but Latin has also been > > very much tied up in religious use, and has mutated all over the > > place. There's quite a bit of difference between Latin and French > > nowadays... > > And Church Latin is pronounced very differently from classical Latin; > it's much closer to Italian, really. > Which church Latin? The church Latin in Italy sounds like Italian; but the "authentic" church Latin in France sounded rather like French, in much of the Holy Roman Empire like German, and in England rather like English. It shows up most markedly in words like "caeli".