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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1898418, member: 56859&quot;]I want to go to a big coin show later this year.&nbsp; Realizing I had no idea how to pronounce any of these Roman and Greek names-- having only read and typed them-- I remembered this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Gulp.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I have been mispronouncing everything.&nbsp; Every.&nbsp; Single.&nbsp; Name.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thinking I should learn the correct pronunciations, I hit <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Latin%20Pronunciation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Latin%20Pronunciation" rel="nofollow">this Forvm page</a> and various audible pronunciation dictionaries.&nbsp; Now I&#039;m just more confused.</p><p><br /></p><p>For starters, the first lesson on that Forvm page shows vowels with written English examples.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t even understand the first two lines!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]324228[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Sigh.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Plugging along, I used this Forvm guide to determine how to pronounce &quot;Vespasian&quot;.&nbsp; Got it.&nbsp; &quot;wes-Pah-see-ahn&quot;.<span style="color: #0000ff">*</span>&nbsp; Good to know; in my head I&#039;ve been saying &quot;veh-SPAH-see-un&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>But wait... in the recent Heritage video ad the narrator says &quot;vehSPAYzhun&quot;.&nbsp; Stupid guy.&nbsp; He didn&#039;t read the Forvm guide.&nbsp; Hah.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Argh</i>, apparently he&#039;s correct!&nbsp; Other audible guides pronounce it &quot;vehSPAYzhun&quot; as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Bigger sigh.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Perhaps while at the show I will pretend to be mute.&nbsp; That would probably cause less embarrassment.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be the tall brunette with a clipboard and marker.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">*Edited.&nbsp; I even failed at reading the Forvm article-- didn&#039;t scroll down to the part where they somewhat phonetically spell out each of the twelve caesars.&nbsp; As per the article, it is &quot;wes-pas-i-AHN-us&quot;, or &quot;ves-PAYSH-i-an&quot;.&nbsp; </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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