Mightily helpful. Thanks much man.

At least I've been saying it mostly correct. Except for the ending of 'Epeiros,' which I was using a long 'o' for.

Are most 'o's pronounced the same in general, then?

Perhaps one of these days I will actually get to learn these languages that I want to...

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Somewhat. For purposes of EB, most anything that looks like it ends in "-os" rhymes with "floss", not with "rose". There are differences (you can hear some of them in battle, as when the soldiers say "Hos tachista" (ως ταχιστα)--The "o" in "Hos" is long, such that it sounds like "Host" with the T cut off the end. Generally, omegas are long, omicrons are short, but since that doesn't carry through to transliteration it's harder to tell. Fortunately, just about everything you'll see written that ends in "-os" is using the omicron.

Cheers.

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Ah, I see. Good stuff.

Thanks again, that clears up a bunch.

I do think that there should be some readily available guide to pronunciations here, mainly for the Greek, Celtic, Germanic and whatever the As'Sab'yn Wal'jau speak (and how in the name of God you pronounce that itself). A Classical Latin guide would be nice even though I myself have it pretty much down (so methinks).

Germanic and Celtic in particular (Caidainh=Kee-dunk and Gaeleiche=Guy-latch? Fair enough, but what about the former Swebotraustastamnoz and the like?), as the Greek isn't quite as hard to get (it's mostly just differences in individual letter and dipthong sounds, as far as I can see).

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