How Do You Pronounce My Name?

[Dan]

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Edited June 9, 2009 by Dan

[Sojourner]

The pronunciation guide I found said in Latin the letter "h" is "silent except for two words, where it sounds like a guttural, German "CH" or K sound as in "ich" or "key": nihil and mihi."

So it's not a hard "k" like "kill." We don't have a good equivalent in English, I don't think.

[missionseeker]

[quote name='Terra Firma' post='1887093' date='Jun 9 2009, 10:53 AM']The pronunciation guide I found said in Latin the letter "h" is "silent except for two words, where it sounds like a guttural, German "CH" or K sound as in "ich" or "key": nihil and mihi."

So it's not a hard "k" like "kill." We don't have a good equivalent in English, I don't think.[/quote]

[Hilde]

Kids these days have problems separating the ch sound in ich and the ch in Charlie. Which makes the words mean different things when they pronounce it that way.Ahhh...it burns.
I wonder if they have the same problem in Germany.

[jeffpugh]

probably not. it's not a mix and match language like English. It is our sister language though.