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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 4401365, member: 43872&quot;]There is a similar problem with biblical names.&nbsp; I had a preacher friend who, when someone would question his pronunciation would say, &quot;They&#039;re all dead, so they don&#039;t care!&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the correct pronunciation for the purists who speak Greek and Latin today, just think how differently English was pronounced 600 years ago (think Chaucer) or even now in different places.&nbsp; There are very few surviving recordings of speech from ancient Greece or Rome, so 2000 years might just have made a difference.&nbsp; And for that matter, even 2000 years ago there were regional differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We really don&#039;t know for certain what they said in ancient times.&nbsp; The point is that we understand what is meant when someone speaks today, and have a little good humored patience with anyone who does not pronounce the names exactly as we were taught.&nbsp; They may even be more correct than we think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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