Talk:Ab initio
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Pronunciation
[edit]The pronunciation guide is incorrect: ab is pronounced as in "cab" not as in "barb". – ukexpat (talk) 20:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi ukexpat, I created this article. the pronunciation guide is exactly as it is from dictionary.com - one of the cited sources, leaving it as ab might be all-right as well, but I would prefer it if it was from a source. I saw that there are 2 pronounciation guides listed so I updated it, hope they suffice. Thanks for you excellent over-all editing by the way gratias tibi ago --Theo10011 (talk) 15:59, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- No problem. The pronunciation issue may be US vs Brit. The dictionary.com (American) pronunciation stiil doesn't sound right to me and certainly not the way I learned it at school back the 70s. We were taught that it was a very short "a", as I mentioned above. I am not sure there really is way to source that. In any event no one really knows how the classical Romans pronounced it. – ukexpat (talk) 02:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant.--Theo10011 (talk) 10:34, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Kind of pointless to argue about English perversion of Latin. :-) Go to http://translate.google.com/#la|en|ab%20initio and click "Listen". — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 09:24, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. The pronunciation issue may be US vs Brit. The dictionary.com (American) pronunciation stiil doesn't sound right to me and certainly not the way I learned it at school back the 70s. We were taught that it was a very short "a", as I mentioned above. I am not sure there really is way to source that. In any event no one really knows how the classical Romans pronounced it. – ukexpat (talk) 02:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)