John - Many Americans have had GREAT difficulty pronouncing Isaias. Three voiced vowels in a row is not very common here.
Our Intro to Scripture prof in seminary was Fr. J. Kingsley Dalpadado, OMI, a Sri Lankan. Of course, we got the "British" pronunciations. Jerome was JER-um, renaissance was rin-A-sense, and chaos (Genesis) was cows.
Joking apart, Isaias (Isaiah) is not used as a Christian name in English-speaking countries, and so the eponymous storm is pronounced as Spanish (ee-sah-EE-ahs) rather than English (eye-SEYE-as).
Before the mid-1960s Catholics used the Latinate form of OT names (Elias, Tobias, Messias etc.).
Consecutive voiced vowels are problematic, and not just for Americans. Try singing 'Che faro senza Euridice'!
I've never come across 'chaos' pronounced as 'cows'. I suspect your prof was being pedantic in his Greek pronunciation.
Some American pronunciations have become almost universal. Few people still pronounce 'temporarily' with the stress on the first syllable.
Don’t know where else to do this, so please forgive me, Father. I know you may choose not to post it. In the category of WOW, just wow... My son-in-law, now a surgeon, graduated from ND and is a dedicated alumnus. But even he will be flummoxed by this latest:
“In late June the University of Notre Dame announced that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend and sometime 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, had been named a 2020-21 faculty fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS).” —First Things, 8/3/20
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Rip currents a constant danger in storm surf. On a postive note, shark attack in stormy waters is virtually unknown.
That isn't you surfing, is it?!?
Isaias - I like it! Someone in the Met Office has access to Douay-Rheims! Isaiah, along with Jeremiah, Elijah et al. always sound a bit proddy to me.
John - Many Americans have had GREAT difficulty pronouncing Isaias. Three voiced vowels in a row is not very common here.
Our Intro to Scripture prof in seminary was Fr. J. Kingsley Dalpadado, OMI, a Sri Lankan. Of course, we got the "British" pronunciations. Jerome was JER-um, renaissance was rin-A-sense, and chaos (Genesis) was cows.
Fr MJK
Joking apart, Isaias (Isaiah) is not used as a Christian name in English-speaking countries, and so the eponymous storm is pronounced as Spanish (ee-sah-EE-ahs) rather than English (eye-SEYE-as).
Before the mid-1960s Catholics used the Latinate form of OT names (Elias, Tobias, Messias etc.).
Consecutive voiced vowels are problematic, and not just for Americans. Try singing 'Che faro senza Euridice'!
I've never come across 'chaos' pronounced as 'cows'. I suspect your prof was being pedantic in his Greek pronunciation.
Some American pronunciations have become almost universal. Few people still pronounce 'temporarily' with the stress on the first syllable.
Fr MJK, that isn’t all that hard for an Appalachian.
“D’ya thank ‘ees ‘ungry?”
“Well, ‘ee say ee ahs”.
😂😂
Don’t know where else to do this, so please forgive me, Father. I know you may choose not to post it. In the category of WOW, just wow... My son-in-law, now a surgeon, graduated from ND and is a dedicated alumnus. But even he will be flummoxed by this latest:
“In late June the University of Notre Dame announced that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend and sometime 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, had been named a 2020-21 faculty fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS).”
—First Things, 8/3/20
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