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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3039172, member: 44316&quot;]Don&#039;t worry about it. Different pronunciations are accepted.</p><p><br /></p><p>I stopped worrying in 1986. There was an International Numismatic Congress in London (completely scholarly, no coins for sale) and I was from Montana (hotbed of ancient coins! NOT!) and beginning to contribute academically to scholarship about statistics in numismatics.&nbsp; I attended and thought I might learn how to pronounce words and names from the pros. I took a tiny tape recorder and a long list of names and words from ancient numismatics. I asked famous scholars if they would be willing to pronounce the words on the list into the tape recorder, and everyone I asked agreed. (Words were like cuirass, aequitas, Geta, Antoninus, Severus, drachm, etc.).&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>After I had listened to several well-known numismatists, I gave up. There were so many different pronunciations I could tell there was little agreement and probably no &quot;right&quot; way. In particular, those from England treat vowels much differently than those from the continent. &quot;Antoninus&quot; can have an &quot;ee&quot; sound, or &quot;eye&quot;. &quot;Severus&quot; can have &quot;severe&quot; in it, or &quot;sever&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have coin friends who leave out entire syllables, which is going too far. Look at the word or name, give every vowel some place in your pronunciation, and it will be close enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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