Latin Noises & Remus' Name

[Jim Hohman]

No: HPFGUIDX 902

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Aberforth's Goat" 
<Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> > Of course Lupin's name is derived from latin, but I'm confused w/ 
the
> > pronunction of Remus - is it RAY-mus or REE-mus ?
> 
> I'm three days late on this, but just wanted to add my salt: as a 
kid in
> Italy, I was taught  learned to pronounce that kind of "e" the same 
as a
> modern Italian "e."  To wit, a bit longer than the "e" in egg but a 
bit
> shorter than the "ay" above.    Hence, more of a RAY-mus.  To get 
"REE-mus"
> you would have had to write "Rimus."
> 
> Caveat Lector: But that's just applying modern Italian
prononciation 
to
> Latin, which proves nothing.  As far as I know, no one really knows 
how
> those old guys talked.
> 
> Caveat Mike: My old Latin teacher would have me dragged in a spiked 
barrel
> behind a bounding chariot for saying that.
> 
> Baaaaaa!
> 
> Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
> http://profiles.yahoo.com/aberforths_goat

I could have a discussion about Latin pronunciation (in a word I 
believe there has been undo influence by German scholars)

BUT. . . I think in English usage Remus is pronounced REE-mus.  
Remember the Uncle Remus stories which my southern mother tells to
her 
grandchildren still.  Have you ever seen the old Disney movie' Song
of 
the South'???

Jim