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Originally Posted by JimMorrison
Stiped comes from the Latin 'Stipendium'. Why is this so odd? Because Latin has no "ih" sound for I, yet we use it all the time in words derived from Latin - except in this case, we kept the original pronunciation.....
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Some of this may be related to use of church Latin, which is not pronounced in the same way as classical Latin for some reason. Church Latin, for instance, pronounces c as a 'ch' sound most of the time, where classical Latin uses a hard 'k' sound.
PS: I thought R'lyeh was generally pronounced 'AAAAARGH!gibber*splatter*crunch*gristle (pause) belch'