How do you pronounce Lycaeum........

[Dr. Quack]

And well....does anyone know the story about what is going on over tha'
Like-ay-um
or lye-ceeum
or what ?

 

[VikingRage]

Lie-cee-umm. Thats how they said it in the movie Gladiator anyway.
V.
[This message has been edited by VikingRage (edited 12 June 2001).]

 

[beanfun]

Lie-see-um is correct.

 

[cascadia]

meanwhile, anyone notice their site has been down for days?

 

[Party_Animal]

Yeah! WTF is up with that!?
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[CuriousCub]

Lyceaum...with an A..isn't a real word.
Why does that site spell it like that?
Now lyceum...This is what they mean, right?
ly*ce*um (noun)
[Latin Lyceum, gymnasium near Athens where Aristotle taught, from Greek Lykeion, from neuter of lykeios, epithet of Apollo]
First appeared 1786
1 : a hall for public lectures or discussions
2 : an association providing public lectures, concerts, and entertainments
3 : LYCEE

 

[Alucard_X]

this is from a post off the newsgroups, alt.drugs.pyschedlics :::
From: [email protected] ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Attn: L Y C A E U M operators
Newsgroups: alt.drugs, alt.drugs.pot, alt.drugs.culture, alt.drugs.psychedelics
Date: 2001-06-11 13:04:03 PST
In alt.drugs.psychedelics, rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski <[email protected]> scribbled:
: Are you serious? What happened?
The ISP hosting them cancelled the agreement. The servers are currently sitting
in one of the admin's apartments in San Fransisco. If you or anyone else knows
of somewhere they could get hosting at, say so and I can probably get you in
touch with their admins.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=ed31a5586c25ea7b,9&seekm=9g5n55%245a1%241%40bob.news.rcn.net#p

 

[Roches]

technically, in latin, a and ae are equivalent to the english long a (like the a in hate) and c can go two ways; in the Roman pronunciation it's a hard c (like a k.. never an s sound), in ecclesiastical latin it's a ch sound.
however.
if the english word lyceum/lycaeum comes from latin via french, then the soft c (s sound) is valid.