> The English verb is "scintillate", for emitting sparks or sparkling...
> both it and the noun "scintilla" are from the Latin verb "scintillare"
> ("to sparkle") and noun "scintilla" ("spark").
>
> BTW, in all of these, the "c" makes no contribution to the sound.In the original Latin words "c" *is* audible. However, during the transition Latin -> French -> English, the "c" became very soft and then muted. Personally I was pronouncing Scintilla as "sintilla" and SciTE as "skite" - I know that's inconsistent, but this is how it sounded "good" to me :) _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list Scite-interest@lyra.org http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
