As for Mr. Milner â€” who does post here on Textkit on occasion
â€” his efforts and passion deserve the most lauding, and I mean
that with great sincerity. As for ae sounding like oe â€” that's
probably because the text he's reading from spells it cÅ“lum,
rather than cÃ¦lum, rather than caelum. A common printing error
followed by the pronunciation error. Kyneto Valesio wrote:On
that point I think you are probably mistaken. In one lesson,
called "Swallowing the Dictionary" he says coelum in its place
with the other words beginning "co". To me it sounds like
"caelum". Perhaps the very fact that we have both "coelum" and
"caelum" points to the fact that this represents some sort of
received pronunciation. I don't know. I have also been
intensively listening to the Latinum podcast. The only
pronunciation which I found odd was this one too, which wasn't
realated to caelum/coelum in anyway: I am talking about the
dative of qui (don't remember the exact contexts, but it
probably was "Cui est liber?", or a related se