How do you pronounce "Baiae" , the city in Italy?

How do you pronounce "Baiae"?



Answer on How do you pronounce "Baiae" , the city in Italy?



Do you mean in Italian or English?



If you mean in Italian:



"Bai" is pronounced "Bye"



Instead there are two different pronunciations for "ae":



if we consider the Latin pronunciation ( some cities, especially in Southern Italy, have got Latin name) it will be "eh" like the second E in "eleven"



Instead, if the pronunciation is in the Italian way, it is "uheh", (U like in "us" and E like the second one in "eleven")



So it could be:



Bye-eh



Bye-uheh



However, in my opinion the first one is more probable because the second one sounds very strange...

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