[B-Greek] Pronunciation rules
Sean Kelly
seank at microsoft.com
Mon Oct 3 17:53:45 EDT 2005
My son and I are studying Biblical Greek for this year's homeschool
elective. We have Dr. Bill Mounce's book, workbook and lectures on CD.
We are only into Chapter 4 so this might be a premature question that is
covered later on in the book, but we are encountering our first
vocabulary words and trying to be good students we are guessing at the
pronunciations given what we learned in Chapter 3 about letter sounds,
long and short vowels, diphthongs, gamma nasals, diaresis and iota
subscripts and there is one word we just can't understand how Dr. Mounce
pronounces the way he does.
Pilatos (Pi iota lambda alpha tau omicron sigma) Dr. Mounce pronouces
the the iota with the same sound as the i in the english phrase "I am"
or the diphthong ai (alpha iota) I can't find a rule anywhere that says
I pronouce it that way. Are there exceptions in Greek pronounciation the
way there are in English. Someone I asked thought that perhaps this was
a Latin word that had be translated into Greek and so Dr. Mounce was
using the Latin pronouncation.
Any help?
Sean Kelly
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