[B-Greek] Pronouncing PILATOS
George F. Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Thu Aug 12 10:02:32 EDT 2004
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:41:55 -0500 "Mitchell, John W"
<JWMitchell at midamerican.com> writes:
> I'm just starting Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek. On the provided
> CD
> he pronounces the vocabulary words. I understood why each word
> sounded
> the way it did until I got to the word PILATOS. He pronounced it
> like
> "pie lah tes".
>
> 1. Why does the iota make a sound like a long i? According to
> what
> I've read iota can only be short like lid or long like bee.
>
> 2. Why does he pronounce the ending three letters like "tes" and
> not
> "tahs" like the omicron sound usually makes?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> John Mitchell
>
> ---
I would never attempt to explain why someone does something in a
particular manner unless I had information which would support my
conclusion. Therefore, I won't attempt to speculate why Mounce
pronounces the name Pilate [PILATOS] as he does. I can only give you the
way I think it should be pronounced which is
PEE - LAH' - TOS [as in "toss"]
george
gfsomsel
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