English speakers pronounce caesar wrong. The way it was said in Latin is with the “k” sound like “kaisar”.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-26-16
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Well, we do, but so do speakers of all of the modern Romance languages, too. Thank the Norman French for messing up our pronunciation.
German, by the way, pronounces it closer to the original Latin, and that’s where its word for “emperor” comes from.
–German, by the way, pronounces it closer to the original Latin, and that’s where its word for “emperor” comes from.–
Yup.