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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3040283, member: 82549"]Latin was spoken over a very broad area, over a great time span, and by people with many different dialects and accents. If you imagine how much variation there is in the pronunciation of a simple word like, say, "fire" in the U.S., I think you can get a feel for the many ways there are to pronounce different words and letters in Latin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the "one vowel, one sound" rule, that might work as long as you don't have any coins of the usurper Carausius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3040283, member: 82549"]Latin was spoken over a very broad area, over a great time span, and by people with many different dialects and accents. If you imagine how much variation there is in the pronunciation of a simple word like, say, "fire" in the U.S., I think you can get a feel for the many ways there are to pronounce different words and letters in Latin. As far as the "one vowel, one sound" rule, that might work as long as you don't have any coins of the usurper Carausius.[/QUOTE]
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