(Magica de) Spelled the wrong way

[M. Mitchell Marmel]

At 3:07 PM +0200 8/27/02, M.J. Prior wrote:

>I don't know how Circe is pronounced in English and French, but I
>would guess that both C's are pronounced like tsj or cc in capuccino,
>which would make up for both Don and Gilles rendering the C's like
>Sigma's.

I pronounce it "Seer-say".

>The original Greek Kirke is pronounced with two hard K's, and
>that's how the Romans must have pronounced it too. (CIRCE is just the
>Roman transcription (switch from one alphabeth to the other) of Greek
>KIPKH. The Roman C was originally pronounced like the hard Greek
>Kappa. CAESAR was not pronounced like English 'Sea-sar', but more
>like German Kaiser, which is, of course, derived from it.)

Huh!  Ya learn something new every day.

-MMM-