James Burbidge wrote: >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". > > Well, here in the US, coeli, meaning heaven, is pronounced CHE-li, to the best of my understanding. In Classical Latin it would be Ko-EL-i; that is, hard C and prounounce all vowels. CHE-li seems pretty Italianate; which is not surprising as Italy is the home of the Vatican and the nation of all recent Popes except JPII. I have no background in Church Latin, nor have I made a study of it, but these are things I've picked up . . . Mia