Why when I listen to Catholic hymns singing, I always hear "ch" sound in words like sacrificium, conceptus, docebo?
When I studied Latin at college we learned that before e, i, y, ae, oe "c" sounds like "ts". For example, English words, derived form Latin don't have sound "ch" too, for example, Lat. Docere - Eng. Docent (an university teacher), we don't spell it like "ch", but a soft “c”, close to "s"), circle (from latin "circulus" we do not say "ch" at the beginning of the word). In...
Latin Spelling.
When I studied Latin at college we learned that before e, i, y, ae, oe "c" sounds like "ts". For example, English words, derived form Latin don't have sound "ch" too, for example, Lat. Docere - Eng. Docent (an university teacher), we don't spell it like "ch", but a soft “c”, close to "s"), circle (from latin "circulus" we do not say "ch" at the beginning of the word). In...
Latin Spelling.