> real pronunciation was quite different to how you hear it quoted in media today, e.g. Veni, Vidi Vici sounding more like Weni, Widi, Wiki. What you call "rea

> real pronunciation was quite different to how you hear it quoted in media today, e.g. Veni, Vidi Vici sounding more like Weni, Widi, Wiki. What you call "real pronunciation" is the pronunciation in the Classical dialect of Latin[0]. What you hear pronounced most often is the Liturgical[1] dialect, which is certainly how I learned to sing Latin in choir in college (a secular school) and I'm pretty sure the Liturgical dialect is what's most commonly taught in Catholic schools. (I'm not Catholic and I didn't attend a Catholic school, but that's my understanding.) Given the scientific revolution's roots in the Renaissance[2], I presume many scientists use pronunciation somewhere between Liturgical and Classical Latin. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Latin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Latin [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin#Renaissance_Latin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin#Renaissance_Latin