Piotr Fusik: > "i" like in "ski"/"lee" or "sky"/"lite" ?
Sky. > Do you pronounce the trailing "e" ? No. Given the dual etymology from the history page '''Latin meaning something like "understanding in a neat way" and is also an Old English version of the word "shit" ''' and this set of recordings from Beowulf and some Latin poetry: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/Beowulf.Readings/Prologue.html http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.harvard.edu%2F%7Eclassics%2Fpoetry_and_prose%2Fpoetry.html Reconstructing from syllables in the recordings produces for the Old English scite something like 'shitay" with a short 'i' like 'hill' and a final 'e' or short 'ay' sound. The Latin is something like 'skeetay'. So we could just encourage diversity and experimentation with pronunciation. Neil _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
