Dragaera

Language drift WAS: Re: Vlad and Kiera

Mark A. Mandel thnidu
Mon Sep 5 21:31:44 PDT 2005

--- Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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; 

COI-li, or "coyly". "Oe" and "ae" are diphthongs in ClLat.


-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel



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