[b-greek] Pronunciation Help  From: David J. Sugg
(djsugg@bigfoot.com) Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 10:16:58 EST  I
have a question on the pronunciation of PNEUMA. Is the Pi
pronounced or silent? I am not really interested in how it would
have been pronounced originally, I just want to be sure others
who know Koine Greek will understand what I am saying. Mounce
teaches pronounceing each consonant, but someone told me
recently that PNEUMA should be pronounced 'NEW-mah', much like
in english we would pronounce 'pneumatic.' So if I want to be
understood by a group of Greek scholars, like those inhabiting
this list, how should I say PNEUMA, 'NEW-mah' or 'p-NEW-mah'?