In einer eMail vom 16.04.01 05:23:14 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt [email protected]: << GYGER >> well, here in our part of Germany (SW) we pronounce it like in "my" but that vowel is very short. Second syllable: the "g" is pronounced as in the first syllable and the whole syllable sound like "care" but short and the "c" is an "g". Verflixt nochmal, how shall I tell you how to pronounce if you don't have one f... word that sounds similar :-) I have the same problem with a slide show I will perform five weeks from now about an excavation in our garden about Roman remains - I know the Latin words and the German expression but how to pronounce a Latin word in English - like hypocaustum and praefurnium. by the way: "Salü, my name is Roland Geiger and I live in St. Wendel, Germany (as sometimes told before). Last year we found remains of a Roman landhouse right in our front yard, informed the specialists (archeologists) and parts of it got excavated. To the end of last year we decided to expand our front yard on the other side and two feet deep we found more ruins plus pottery and a piece of a pillar. If you are interested in more details and see some pictures from what there is and what we found, you may come to the Public Library at Dansville, NY, about an hour south of Rochester, NC, on Thursday, May 24, 2001, 7 pm. There I will perform a slide show and tell some stories and tales about it. Title of the show is "stone-rich" or "the Romans in our garden". CU at Dansville. Roland Geiger, St. Wendel, Germany [email protected]"