Note (return) — ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS DERIVED FROM LATIN

A once well-known schoolmaster, a correspondent of Conington's, had a daughter born to him whom in his unregenerate days he christened Rosa. At a later time he became a purist in quantities, and then he shortened the o and took the voice out of the s and spoke of her and to her as Rossa. The mother and the sisters refused to acknowledge what they regarded as a touch of shamrock and clung persistently to the English flower. The good gentleman did not call his son Solōmon,2 though this is the form which ought to be used by those who turn the traditional English 'Elkănah' into 'Elkānah', 'Abăna' into 'Abāna', and 'Zebŭlun' into 'Zebūlun'. If they do not know