Expert: Maria - 3/12/2009

Question
Hi Maria,
I would be so grateful if you could help me.  I would like to know how to correctly (as closely as possible) pronounce the beautiful phrase "luctor et emergo"
Thank you so much
Molly

Answer
Hello,

the pronunciation of “Luctor et emergo” (literally, "I struggle and emerge” , i.e. I struggle and emerge victorious ), the Latin motto of the province of Zeeland, located in the south-west of the Netherlands, on the North Sea, is the following:

-L is pronounced like the L in “land”

-U is pronounced like the OO in “good”. The stress stands on this vowel.

-C is pronounced like the K in “king”

-T is pronounced like the T in “tight”

-OR  is pronounced like the OR in the conjunction  “or”

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-ET is pronounced like the ET in “pet”
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-E is pronounced like the  E in “pet”

-M is pronounced like the M in “mountain”

-E is pronounced like the E in “pet”. The stress falls on this vowel.

-R is pronounced like the R in “ring” or “roar”

-G is pronounced like the G in “go”

-O is pronounced like the O in the conjunction  “or”.

Hope this is clear enough.
Feel free however to ask me again.

Best,
Maria