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Hello, I am reading in the Chrestomathy of Vulgar Latin and I am wondering about the pronunciation. In the first example from the Lucca Manuscript there is the word 'cuse' which is in the glossary explained as derived from 'consue'. Long 'o' was often 'u' in early mediaeval Latin. I think I did once ask a question about that. Anyway somewhere I read that it is a way to spell spoken 'ou'. Yesterday I thought more about that matter and I remembered the word 'curtis' from 'cohors'. I did think about that word lately already. Just now I looked 'cohors' up and found that there is also the form 'cors', with long 'o'. That lets me think the two words could be pronounced 'couse' and 'cours'. Furthermore it could mean that the text is of french origin. Still there is another vague possiblility that it comes from a Vulgar Latin variety which also lead to german words where long latin 'o' is 'u', like in 'Muster' which comes from 'mônstrum'. I did probably mention this example in the earlier post too. In the same text example there is the word 'docuimus' and I think it could be read as 'dóquimus', because of words like Italian 'battere', which I read in the Introduction to Vulgar Latin. I may be quoting to much. Have some of you tried to romanize such texts? Bye, bye!