Talk:Tiberius Gracchus Major
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How is the name "Gracchus" normally pronounced in English, please? ("Cicero" and "Caesar" are not normally pronounced in the Roman way by English-speakers - is that true of "Grachhus" or should the classical pronunciation be imitated? Presumably the classical pronunciation would approximate to grak-kooss if written in the English way?).
It is pronounced pretty much as it looks in English, well at least that is the most common usage (G-ra-cus). Latin pronunciation is not an exact science, we are not sure exactly how they said everything (for example it is very often accepted that a 'V' in latin is prounced as a 'W' in english, but this is still being debated). For example in English we say Caesar as (Ci-sar) and his full name Gaius Julius Caesar as (G-I-us Ju-li-us Ci-sar) where as in Latin many accept it would be Caius Iulius Caesar (G-I-us U-li-us Ki-sar) (Latin always uses hard Cs and there was no 'J' it was an 'I'). But when dealing with Ancient history, for ease, we tend to pronounce it as though it were English. 7:48 3 March 2008 Imperator101 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imperator101 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 3 March 2008 (UTC)