Pre-modern Greek didn't have our letter C, just k, always hard.

Latin is more of a problem.   Classical pronunciation is the same
as for k, k being used only in a few words starting ka.... one of
which gives us our word calendar.  The Roman Catholic Church
has favored an Italianate pronunciation in which c is hard before
a, o, and u, soft (like our ss) before i and e.   Where a Greek
noun ended in -os, its Latin cousin usually ended in -us, the
o of Old Latin having changed to u.

At 06:47 AM 6/6/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Geeky in a different way:
>Aha, Cerebus = Kerberos! So the "k" is hard in Greek?
>And how is the Latin version pronounced? "Serebus" or
>"Kerebus"?
>
>Geeky in the computer kinda way:
>I want to point out a distinction in free|open source
>software that Microsoft in particular uses. The BSD
>license
>(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html)
>allows others to use such licensed software however
>they see fit, as long as credit is given. The GPL
>(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html),
>however, requires that software built with GPL
>software must be GPL as well. That is why M$ claims
>the GPL is a "virus" and "un-American" (???), because
>they would be forced to give it away.


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