medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Just as "Trojan" should really have be pronounced "Troyan" :-)
In most languages it _is_ so pronounced. Even in English, the
pronunciations of "Trojan", "Trajan", "Sejanus", etc. are unusual for
names whose Latin parents once used "j" for intervocalic yod; they are
traditional exceptions to a rule whose present norm in such matters is
to follow the "Erasmian" pronunciation of Latin. Historically too,
"Cajetanus" is "Gayetanus"/"Kayetanus" in much the same way as "Caius"
(as in John Caius and the Cambridge college that bears his name), once
often spelled "Cajus", is "Keyes". Best again, John Dillon
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