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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2714154, member: 56859&quot;]That all sounds reasonable <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I was preparing to go to my first coin show I was suddenly very worried about how to pronounce names.&nbsp; Until that point, all of my ancient coin communication had been in writing and I had no idea how to correctly pronounce anything.&nbsp; Some of my mistakes were pretty funny (Ag uh THOKE uls... um, nope <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>I posted here and got a lot of feedback and the bottom line was that in a bourse full of ancient coin dealers and collectors, there will be many different voiceings of any given name or ancient word.&nbsp; I still prepared as best I could... but sure enough, it seems that every dealer had a different pronunciation.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was still timid when pronouncing certain emperor names but I did the best I could given a few rudimentary principles of Latin.&nbsp; No one noticed or cared about my pronunciation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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