Originally Posted by
langleybaston
What I want to know.
How does anybody know how to speak Latin?
We had [I had briefly] two masters who pronounced the weird words differently.
And some Met. folk say strartus and some straytus.
Depending on their status or status!
My Father & step Mother had Italian friends who would drive to London every summer in their ancient Beetle. My stepmother spoke fluent Italian and the women would chatter away merrily but my Father and the husband would converse in Latin.