It's Pliny, not Pliney.

They are, but feel free to like them !!

 

(But now I'm sorry I didn't go even further back...)

 

Pretty sure those were considered "correct" - at least in the (sorta) English-speaking US of A, at the time. That's what WWI was all about, right?

Elsewhere in the world, I remember when two of the largest cities in the world were Bombay and Peking --- but they must be abandoned now, since I can't even find them on a map! (The latter I can find on a Chinese restaurant menu, right next to "Duck").

 

I’d call Pliny more old school with the Hop bill used. There’s DIPAs I like much much better as well, but it still stands pretty damn tall by itself. The beauty of 2H is in its consistency and in its ability to be found fresh most everywhere, but you have to like Centennial Hops too. Respect your opinion here, and palates are indeed unique to the individual. I haven’t had either in forever, I’m really loyal to no one beer or style, I like many.

 

Indeed.

When one looks up dilettante in the dictionary, there is a picture of some blowhard correcting someone’s ancient Latin pronunciation.

Medieval Prakrit on the other hand... we have countless reincarnated experts to help us with that!

 

We can't even agree how English is pronounced now, but some sophomania sufferer is quick to tell us all how ancient Latin was pronounced. Cracks me up every time.

 

But, how do you pronounce potato?

 

More importantly, how do you spell potatoe?

 

Dan Quayle say's yes!

 

The only reason beer nerds who know it's Pliny call it "Pliney" is so they can sit back and have a good chuckle whenever someone corrects them in a thread.

The fact that you created an entire thread about it instead has them proverbially rolling on the floor right now.

 

Exactly. This is hilarious.

 

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This is why I dislike absolute statements. This beer nerd actually took two years of Latin...

 

Oh, so you call it "Pliney" for an entirely different reason? I'm sure it's hilarious. Let's hear it.

 

I don’t call it Pliney...ever. That said, there might have been some misunderstanding on my part of your original statement.

Apologies for any confusion.

 

Tree House, not Treehouse, Evil Twin, not EvilTwin (Eviltwin), Green Man, not Greenman, Founders, not Founder's, Bell's, not Bells, Sixpoint, not Six Point, etc.

IPAs, not "hops"

 

I did too. My teacher was Italian. She was quick to tell us we learned Latin with modern Italianized pronunciation, and that obviously know one can know the ways Latin was pronounced during its time as a living language many centuries ago.

 

Well we know they spelled it plinivs (since they didn't have "u" only "v") and we know that " v" = 5 for the Romans. So its pretty easy to deduce that the only proper.pronunciation is "PLIN-ee-fives"