I'm listening to a very enthusiastic Sarah Isgur of SCOTUSblog get interviewed about her new book on the Supreme Court, Last Branch
Standing. "No lawyer knows how to pronounce writ lf cerciorari!"
She says according to Latin scholars, the first c is a hard c.
KERciorari
I was amused. But Latin as used in medicine and sometimes law is more
like New Latin, used to represent concepts with some actual new words
and not inherited from ancient Latin literally.
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> posted:
I'm listening to a very enthusiastic Sarah Isgur of SCOTUSblog get
interviewed about her new book on the Supreme Court, Last Branch
Standing. "No lawyer knows how to pronounce writ lf cerciorari!"
She says according to Latin scholars, the first c is a hard c.
KERciorari
I was amused. But Latin as used in medicine and sometimes law is more
like New Latin, used to represent concepts with some actual new words
and not inherited from ancient Latin literally.
I encountered the same odd pronunciation of a word in two separate
videos this past week. The word is "lattice", which I've always
pronounced (and heard pronounced) very much like "lettuce" with only the >first vowel sound different. But the two videos I saw may have been AI >voiceovers who didn't know how to pronounce the word the "normal" way:
both pronounced it like "lat-TEECE" with the emphasis on the second
syllable. I've never ever heard it pronounced that way before. I think
this is flat-out wrong but maybe I've just heard it pronounced in the
same wrong way all my life....
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> posted:
I'm listening to a very enthusiastic Sarah Isgur of SCOTUSblog get
interviewed about her new book on the Supreme Court, Last Branch
Standing. "No lawyer knows how to pronounce writ lf cerciorari!"
She says according to Latin scholars, the first c is a hard c.
KERciorari
I was amused. But Latin as used in medicine and sometimes law is more
like New Latin, used to represent concepts with some actual new words
and not inherited from ancient Latin literally.
I encountered the same odd pronunciation of a word in two separate videos this past week. The word is "lattice", which I've always pronounced (and heard pronounced) very much like "lettuce" with only the first vowel sound different. But the two videos I saw may have been AI voiceovers who didn't know how to pronounce the word the "normal" way: both pronounced it like "lat-TEECE" with the emphasis on the second syllable. I've never ever heard it pronounced that way before. I think this is flat-out wrong but maybe I've just heard it pronounced in the same wrong way all my life....
I'm listening to a very enthusiastic Sarah Isgur of SCOTUSblog get interviewed about her new book on the Supreme Court, Last Branch
Standing. "No lawyer knows how to pronounce writ lf cerciorari!"
She says according to Latin scholars, the first c is a hard c.
KERciorari
Jun 14, 2026 at 7:18:57 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
I'm listening to a very enthusiastic Sarah Isgur of SCOTUSblog get >>interviewed about her new book on the Supreme Court, Last Branch
Standing. "No lawyer knows how to pronounce writ lf cerciorari!"
She says according to Latin scholars, the first c is a hard c.
KERciorari
I refer her to the Boston Celtics, which everyone says as Seltics, when it >should be Keltics.
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> posted:
I'm listening to a very enthusiastic Sarah Isgur of SCOTUSblog get interviewed about her new book on the Supreme Court, Last Branch
Standing. "No lawyer knows how to pronounce writ lf cerciorari!"
She says according to Latin scholars, the first c is a hard c.
KERciorari
I was amused. But Latin as used in medicine and sometimes law is more
like New Latin, used to represent concepts with some actual new words
and not inherited from ancient Latin literally.
I encountered the same odd pronunciation of a word in two separate videos this past week. The word is "lattice", which I've always pronounced
(and heard pronounced) very much like "lettuce" with only the first
vowel sound different. But the two videos I saw may have been AI
voiceovers who didn't know how to pronounce the word the "normal" way:
both pronounced it like "lat-TEECE" with the emphasis on the second
syllable. I've never ever heard it pronounced that way before. I
think this is flat-out wrong but maybe I've just heard it pronounced
in the same wrong way all my life....
Verily, in article <1781490714-3015@newsgrouper.org>, did user3015 @newsgrouper.org.invalid deliver unto us this message:
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> posted:
I'm listening to a very enthusiastic Sarah Isgur of SCOTUSblog get
interviewed about her new book on the Supreme Court, Last Branch
Standing. "No lawyer knows how to pronounce writ lf cerciorari!"
She says according to Latin scholars, the first c is a hard c.
KERciorari
I was amused. But Latin as used in medicine and sometimes law is more
like New Latin, used to represent concepts with some actual new words
and not inherited from ancient Latin literally.
I encountered the same odd pronunciation of a word in two separate videos
this past week. The word is "lattice", which I've always pronounced
(and heard pronounced) very much like "lettuce" with only the first
vowel sound different. But the two videos I saw may have been AI
voiceovers who didn't know how to pronounce the word the "normal" way:
both pronounced it like "lat-TEECE" with the emphasis on the second
syllable. I've never ever heard it pronounced that way before. I
think this is flat-out wrong but maybe I've just heard it pronounced
in the same wrong way all my life....
Interesting. They usually get pronunciations right but have trouble with homonyms (e.g., confusing "tear" as in ripping with "tear" as in
crying). That, and the faint rasp most of them still have.
Now I want to make a bunch of AIs say a sentence about the Boston
Celtics.
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