Pronunciation Police! (was Re: Spelling Police)

Amy Z aiz24 at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 8 11:59:21 UTC 2001


John wrote:

> Umm...only example I can think of is the I CLAVDIVS-popularised 
Sejanus
> (Captain Jean-Luc Sejanus, in fact :D), which my Classics teacher 
pronounced
> S(schwa)-JAY-n(schwa)ss, but which some people pronounce
> SEH-j(schwa)-n(schwa).

The main character (Mr. Not Ollivander After All) is of course 
pronounced CLAV-divs.

Amy Z





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