Languages with Case Systems

[Estro Felino]

Romani ite domum?

That brought all the torture of the Latin classroom back to me.

Oh about pronunciation, our teacher told us that the letter V was pronounced as W. This caused some giggling when we got to viperas, the accusative plural of vipera (snake), which was pronounced somewhat like "wipe her arse".

In Italy the ecclesiastical pronounciation is taught, so V is V.

 

[Revoltingest]

Really? Even in British English?

Limeys will mispronounce both, of course.

 

[Glaurung]

Oh about pronunciation, our teacher told us that the letter V was pronounced as W.

There are two pronunciations of Latin: classical and ecclesiastical. In classical V is pronounced as W. In ecclesiastical V is pronounced as V.