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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Anglicized Latin and French (was: Naturalismo ...)
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D Gary Grady wrote:

> Misprounounced French and Latin phrases have
> become standard in legal contexts.

No more mispronounced than any other Modern English expressions.
French and Latin phrases in English went through the Great Vowel
Shift and other sound changes just as the native vocabulary did:
`ultra vires' appeared before 1450 as [ultra vires] and then
became [^ltr@ vajri:z].  See A.P. Herbert's article `The Dead
Pronunciation' in his book of mock-legal opinions, *Uncommon Law*.
Talking of [sub poina] instead of [s^bpi:n@] will get you
exactly nowhere with a judge.

My favorite bit of Law-French, excerpted from a decision
settling that a smelly soap factory was not a common-law nuisance:
``Le utilite del chose excusera le noisomeness del stink.''

-- 
John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban
