User talk:Erutuon/2009
Latin Spelling and Pronunciation
[edit]I reverted your reversion of the article on Latin spelling and pronunciation. The monophthongization of /æ/ in unaccented syllables (such as in Troiae) took place early in the republican period. Such unaccented syllables included morphological endings. (Corssen I, 687 ff.) If you wish to discuss this further, please do so in either your talkpage, mine, or the article's discussion section. Szfski (talk) 04:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- Never mind. Quintilian and Terentius Scaurus disagree with me. Szfski (talk) 20:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Centipede and Millipede
[edit]According to the OED, and contrary to your claim at Octopus, both "centipede" and "millipede" are Classical Latin, and are attested in Pliny's Natural History, as centipeda and mīlipeda respectively. —Dominus (talk) 23:26, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
- Right. I was just being pedantic: mīl(l)ipedes had a macron to imply that it was Latin, but was not the correct Latin form (-pedae). But you render the issue obsolete by clearly referring to "centipede" as English. Erutuon (talk) 23:58, 13 November 2009 (UTC)