06-23-2012, 04:22 PM
Quote:Most agree on this:
Pugio POO gee oh (hard G like Good)
Pilum PEE lum
Scutum SCOO tum
All I know is that my Classics and O-level Latin teacher at school would've (literally) thrown his stick of chalk at me for that (it was the 70s in a grammar-turned-comprehensive, and dodging missiles in class for despoiling ancient languages in class was the norm) Hard vowels and hard consonants was the rule of thumb.
Pugio: PUH-GHEE-YOH (pug, geese, yo-yo)
Pilum: PIH-LUM (pill, bum)
Scutum: SKUH-TTUM (cut, bum)
Or something like that, you get the idea. He did give a 5-pence piece for getting something difficult right, though: a kind of "Pavlov's dog" approach.
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
A A A DESEDO DESEDO!
A A A DESEDO DESEDO!