Orin Oríg wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:%23pjvIx$BGHA.228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> 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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>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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>>
>
> I've never seen "Iesu" in any Latin liturgy.


I know nothing about liturgical Latin. The classical Latin spelling is
"Iesu," just as the classical Latin spelling of "Julius Caesar" is "Iulius
Caesar."


> 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?"


The Greek spelling (in English characters) is "Iesous."

For both the Greek and Latin spelling, see, for example,
http://www.pfrs.org/jewish/hr09.html

However, this is dramatically off-topic in these Windows newsgroups, and so
this will be my last contribution to the thread.

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