Chase or be chased?
Outstanding article - thank you. Question on Greek pronunciation: I’m hearing you pronounce phi as though a “p” in English. Am I mishearing that, or is that how it’s pronounced?
In early times phi was an aspirated p. Pi sounded like p in French père, phi as in English pear. A subtle but important difference.
Spin spin spin but aspirant PIN
I had a love and she was chaste
Alack the more’s the pity
But wot you how my love was chaste
Was chased right through the city
I really like the readings. You know it's poetry even when you don't understand it.
Admittedly, I only did Latin from age 15-17, but we weren't taught to roll our r's. Is this only for uni students?
Outstanding article - thank you. Question on Greek pronunciation: I’m hearing you pronounce phi as though a “p” in English. Am I mishearing that, or is that how it’s pronounced?
In early times phi was an aspirated p. Pi sounded like p in French père, phi as in English pear. A subtle but important difference.
Spin spin spin but aspirant PIN
I had a love and she was chaste
Alack the more’s the pity
But wot you how my love was chaste
Was chased right through the city
I really like the readings. You know it's poetry even when you don't understand it.
Admittedly, I only did Latin from age 15-17, but we weren't taught to roll our r's. Is this only for uni students?