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Questions tagged “latin” on ELU
Questions tagged “latin” on ELU
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Q: Why is "salient" pronounced with a "long a" sound?

suməlicThe word salient is pronounced with a "long a" sound; Wiktionary gives the US pronunciation as /ˈseɪ.ljənt/, /ˈseɪ.li.ənt/. Is there any reason why the vowel letter here receives its "long" pronunciation (IPA /eɪ/) rather than its "short" pronunciation (IPA /æ/)? The vowel does not seem to have ...

pronunciation-vs-spelling latin phonology vowels vowel-length
 
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Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
16:39
The ELU ad discussion has been in the meta for about a week now. Is the time ripe to pick a favorite and post it in ELU meta?
Nathaniel
Nathaniel
17:23
@JoonasIlmavirta I'll do that today, using the simpler language
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A: Community Promotion Ads - 2016

Nathaniel

Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
18:04
@Nathaniel Good! I think I won't join ELU just to be able to upvote that, but I hope it'll get support or at least feedback.
Nathaniel
Nathaniel
@JoonasIlmavirta Me too! Even feedback will be great, so that we are ready to go when all the ads get reset at the beginning of the year.
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
23:05
@Nathaniel Voted!
Joonas Ilmavirta
Joonas Ilmavirta
Do we have a sufficiently large Latin SE mafia to push that ad to ELU without outside support? :)

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