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Originally Posted by crich70
Yep, I was watching a youtube video about the Battle of Thermopylae and noted the pronounciation. Of course if I mispronounce his name it's a result of public education as I don't think the teachers went into any great detail on pronouncing it correctly.
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And what is considered "pronouncing it correctly" will depend on whether you're a native English speaker or not - as far as I know, most everyone who isn't a native English speaker has a
very different understanding of how Latin and Greek names should be pronounced...