Talk:Lycidas

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How dyou pronounce 'Lycidas'?

I believe it's basically "LISS-a-diss" -R. fiend 17:49, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I thought it was Licey-duss? dab (ᛏ) 10:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My Milton professor used "LISS-i-duss", with the middle "i" like the beginning of "id". - mako 15:47, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think the whole thing is full of schwas, myself. -R. fiend 15:52, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"like the beginning of "id"? Do you mean latin id, or English I.D.? Shall we switch to IPA at this point? :) dab (ᛏ)

I was thinking of the Freudian "id", actually. Someone who knows classical languages would be helpful. I don't know IPA, but that would definitely be authoritative. (I tried to read schwa and am now going to go back to fighting this VMEbus crate.) - mako 21:59, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

knowledge of classical languages is useless in this case. It would be [lykidas] in Greek, but what we want to know is how this was realized in 17th century English. After all, we are not discussing Theocritus, but Milton. dab (ᛏ) 08:30, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Heh, just goes to show how little I know. I tried the OED just now, but the closest word is lycid. The pronunciation looks like this: (imageshack) - mako 06:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)