[Bards] Ansteorran History and trival

Melody Soice melodysoice at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 14 17:55:37 PDT 2007


Some twenty+ years ago at BYU we were taught to pronounce the Vs as Ws and our instructors made a very good case for that pronounciation as being the ancient pronounciation.  I just wish I could remember what that case was.  Old age--ACK!Melody> From: wolfpaws at mac.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:34:06 -0400> To: bards at lists.ansteorra.org> Subject: Re: [Bards] Ansteorran History and trival> > The instructor here was saying that what scholars think Medieval  > Latin pronunciation was like, is always a bit of a battle ground.   > But in general, at U of T's Centre for Medieval Studies, they  > pronounce the Vs as Vs. (The classicists pronounce them as Ws.)> > Best,> Rhiannon> > > > _______________________________________________> Bards mailing list> Bards at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/bards-ansteorra.org
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