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Originally Posted by HarryT
It seems reasonable to me to suggest that if you're taught about the person, you're probably going to also be taught how to pronounce the name.
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You've certainly got a point. But there might be other MR members who, like me, had their classical education in other languages. Being German, I was educated in that language, obviously, and I still find it hard to wrap my head around the way some Latin and Greek words are pronounced in English.
Her - MY - oh - KNEE, for instance, is about as wrong as it gets: The Greek name has an acute accent on the "o", so the name should have the stress there...