"Cat(h)" wrote in message
Farm1 wrote:

Would anyone like to have a go at putting on screen how they
pronouce
tinus?

IMHO every language has its own bias in pronoucing latin words - and
seen as latin is no longer a spoken language, there is only a very
limited ability to provide a "correct" benchmark.

Yep, agreed. I know that from my own (limited) attempts to learn
Latin.

Hence, anglophones will pronouced Viburnum "Vaybernem", while an
frog
such as yours truly would say "Veeburnum" (french narrow u). This
is
because "i" can sound like "aye" in English in certain positions
within
words, while "i" will never be pronounced that way. Similarly, the
French would not naturally pronounce "u" like "ou", though when we
are
taugh latin, we are taught that u in latin is to be pronounced ou.
We
are also told that c is hard in all cases (if memory serves me
right),
which it is not in French, etc.
Sorry if this sounds a little confused: the point I am making is
that
while there may be some official pronounciation standard for latin,
it
often falls down in the face of the person's own language bias.

For those reasons, i have limited patience for those who try to
correct
one-another in their pronounciation of what is after all a dead
language :-)

Having said all that, how do you pronounce "tinus"?