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Date		Word
2026-07-05	Everything was getting on my nerves. pronunciation	Everything was getting on my nerves. [en]
2026-07-05	I slept so badly today because of that. pronunciation	I slept so badly today because of that. [en]
2026-07-05	For gluing a certain someone's mouth shut. pronunciation	For gluing a certain someone's mouth shut. [en]
2026-07-05	I guess it would be useful. pronunciation	I guess it would be useful. [en]
2026-07-05	But I didn't realize it was that strong. pronunciation	But I didn't realize it was that strong. [en]
2026-07-05	I had used super glue before. pronunciation	I had used super glue before. [en]
2026-07-05	Finally, we managed to separate them! pronunciation	Finally, we managed to separate them! [en]
2026-07-05	And asked him to rub them again. pronunciation	And asked him to rub them again. [en]
2026-07-05	Then I decided to pour a little oil on his fingers. pronunciation	Then I decided to pour a little oil on his fingers. [en]
2026-07-05	However, that didn't work either. pronunciation	However, that didn't work either. [en]
2026-07-05	and rub them gently. pronunciation	and rub them gently. [en]
2026-07-05	And asked him to soak his fingers for a while pronunciation	And asked him to soak his fingers for a while [en]
2026-07-05	So I poured some warm water into a cup. pronunciation	So I poured some warm water into a cup. [en]
2026-07-05	But he said it hurt too much. pronunciation	But he said it hurt too much. [en]
2026-07-05	I told him to try pulling his fingers apart. pronunciation	I told him to try pulling his fingers apart. [en]
2026-07-05	His thumb got stuck to his index finger. pronunciation	His thumb got stuck to his index finger. [en]
2026-07-05	And without realizing it. pronunciation	And without realizing it. [en]
2026-07-05	a little bit of the glue accidentally dripped onto his fingers. pronunciation	a little bit of the glue accidentally dripped onto his fingers. [en]
2026-07-05	While I applied the glue. pronunciation	While I applied the glue. [en]
2026-07-05	I asked a friend. pronunciation	I asked a friend. [en]
2026-07-05	To hold the broken glasses. pronunciation	To hold the broken glasses. [en]
2026-07-05	While I waited for my new glasses to be ready. pronunciation	While I waited for my new glasses to be ready. [en]
2026-07-05	so I bought some super glue to fix them. pronunciation	so I bought some super glue to fix them. [en]
2026-07-05	My glasses were broken. pronunciation	My glasses were broken. [en]
2026-07-05	I'm exhausted, both physically and mentally. pronunciation	I'm exhausted, both physically and mentally. [en]
2026-06-26	Across the street from our house is a church. pronunciation	Across the street from our house is a church. [en]
2026-06-26	Some locals liken the town to Mayberry. pronunciation	Some locals liken the town to Mayberry. [en]
2026-06-26	The doctor has an unusual expertise in the treatment of this disease. pronunciation	The doctor has an unusual expertise in the treatment of this disease. [en]
2026-06-26	Gleb's the deputy chief who leads the department’s training. pronunciation	Gleb's the deputy chief who leads the department’s training. [en]
2026-06-26	That was becoming a distressing new norm. pronunciation	That was becoming a distressing new norm. [en]

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English: I would call my accent modern RP, BBC or General British. That is, my pronunciation of words like "officers" and "offices" is identical, with the final syllable the famous or infamous schwa vowel, the "uh" sound. Speakers of older RP and "Estuary English" are more likely to pronounce "offices" with a final /ɪ/ vowel. I also pronounce "because" with a short vowel as in "top" and words like "circumstance" and "transform" with a short "a" as in "bat." You won't hear an /ɔɪ/ sound like "boy" in my version of /aɪ/ as in "like", though this slide is growing increasingly common. Otherwise I pretty much observe the long "a" / short "a" distinction typical of RP or General British.

Somewhere in all this I would like to say I was a phonetics student of the great John C. Wells at UCL--a fabulous linguist whose understanding, appreciation and explanation of the many sounds of English are unsurpassed.

Latin: which Latin are we speaking? There are no native speakers of classical Latin left alive! Gilbert Highet reminds us that we were taught Latin by someone who was taught Latin and so–on back through time to someone who spoke Latin. Thus there exists a continuum for Latin learning, teaching and speaking which will have to suffice.

Victorian (and earlier) pronunciation has made its way into the schools of medicine and law. These pronunciations have become petrified as recognisable terms and as such will not change, in spite of their peculiar pronunciation. I'm assuming the same is true for Latin speakers of any country.

Medieval Latin and Church Latin again are different. The Italian pronunciation prevails with Anglicisms, Gallicisms and so on thrown in for both versions, though I believe Medieval Latin properly has lots of nasals--think French and
Portuguese--and the famous disappearing declensions and conjugations.

Church Latin and any sung Latin typically employ the Italian sound scheme with the /tʃ/ in dulce, and the vowels and diphthongs following Italian. This is also the pronunciation favoured by the Vatican.

We have some ideas as to how ancient Latin was pronounced at least in the classical period--1st century BCE through 1st century CE which is roughly the late Roman republic (Julius Caesar/Sallust through Trajan/Tacitus. Catullus (died c. 54 BCE) makes jokes about Arrius, who hypercorrects, putting "aitches" in front of nouns and adjectives when others normally don't. We also know from transliteration into and from Greek that the C was a K sound, and V or as it was also written U was a "w". Because the Latin name Valeria, for instance, was spelled "oualeria" in Greek, we can tell that Latin V (capital u) was pronounced as /w./

The metre of Latin tells us how much was elided: short vowels and ‘um’ endings disappearing into the next syllable. We choose to use macrons to show a long vowel where there is a difference in meaning otherwise omit them, but/and given the number of contributors you will find macrons abound. My touchstone is the latest edition of the Oxford Latin Dictionary, and I do not find Google's prime reference to the Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short 1879 version to be the ultimate authority.

The way classical Latin pronunciation is taught now in the USA, Britain and across the world is very different from the way it used to be, when Horace's "dulce et decorum est” was pronounced with U like duck and the first C as in Italian in the same position, and 7 syllables instead of 5. This was strictly 19C. The "new" method closely follows the work of W. Sidney Allen and his "Vox Latina." This sound scheme is well represented in Forvo as is the more Italianate pronunciation.

One can't be a hard and fast purist, but it makes no intuitive sense to me to stretch out the long vowels of Latin so they sound weird. The rules for stress in classical Latin are quite regular, and familiarity with the great speech-writers like Cicero and satirists like Juvenal, will show off the liveliness and variety of the language. Latin may be many things, but funny-sounding it is not.

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