Orin Oríg wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:%23pjvIx$BGHA.228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
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>>Orin Oríg wrote:
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>>>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."
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>>There was no "J" in Latin. The Latin spelling was "Iesu." The Italian
>>spelling is "Gesu."
>>
>>--
>>Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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>>
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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
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>

In Greek it's Iesous (pronounced "ee-ay-soos").

Steve N.