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Originally Posted by alex_d
hmm... apparently in english ae IS pronounced as "ee." But in LATIN (what i was taught in school), ae is "i."
So now all I have to do is travel backward in time or just visit the Vatican, and I can be the first guy with a Sony iReader. People will be as confused and subtly excited as when Sony released a white version of the aural canal penetrating headphones.
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Sure, and by "i", you mean the short i sound, which is pronounced as a shortened "ee", right? As in "it", "illiad", "in". I at the start of a word is normally the "ee" sound (unless you're the US president, and you say "I-rak"), so "iReader" should be "eeReader" too. As well as "eePod" and "eePhone"
Since we have very few recordings of 2000 year ago latin, I doubt if anyone knows with certainty whether aether would have been pronounced ayther (long A), Ither (long I), or eether (long E).