"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> Orin Oríg wrote:
>
> > As an altar boy during Vatican I, the name of Jesus Christ was always
> > pronounced in the Latin mass as "jeh-soo" and not "yeh-soo." I think
> > the correct spelling in Latin was "Gesu" and not "Jesu."
>
>
> There was no "J" in Latin. The Latin spelling was "Iesu." The Italian
> spelling is "Gesu."
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I've never seen "Iesu" in any Latin liturgy.

Do you know that there is no "J" in Greek too? The Greeks pronounce
"Dianna" as "Janna." And if the Greeks has "Jesus," then do you think the
Greeks would have spelled it as "Die Zeus?"

Orinello