School Latin (was Bella???)

[Tracy Hunt]

Eloise:
<big snip>
> I was recently talking with several HPfGUers when the subject of 
the  
> upcoming UK conference was raised. Now just how do you pronounce 
that?
> As ever, I work on the premise that these words have been 
anglicised in  
> pronunciation and so pronounce it 'Ack-sio' on the principal that 
in English,  
> that is the usual (though far from invariable) pronunciation of 
double 'c'  
> preceding 'e' or 'i'. However at least one other person there 
pronounced  it 
> 'Ack-shio'. And in Latin, it would be 'Ack-io' ('i's in all cases  
pronounced 'e'). 
> I can't remember how Stephen Fry pronounces it.
> Any more variations?
> ~Eloise
> 

Tcy:

With *no* training in Latin (formal or otherwise), I pronounce that 
particular spell AH-see-o.  I'm probably the only one who does so - 
but I sometimes think I have an entire language all my own inside my 
head.

Tcy, with my 1.5 knuts worth