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Classical Latin pronounced both ‘c’ and ‘g’ as hard letters. ‘Ker or Ger’. Ecclesiastical Latin used by the Catholic Church for the last millennium as is modern Italian is spoken, changes both the ‘c’ and the ‘g’ to ‘ch’ and ‘jer‘ if they followed by an ‘i’ or a ‘e’. Take you pick how classical … Read more

Ah, the Pub fights with the Schoolroom.  Just quickly, these are latinised names, even if from Greek. The pronunciation guide in the 1926 RAOU checklist (useful on stress but regards ‘g’ as so obvious it is not mentioned)  cautioned: ‘The pronunciation here indicated is the English, not the  ‘Continental’ or ‘Roman’ pronunciation of Latin’.  However … Read more