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Souldn't we really ask how Newton himself, and his contemporaries would
have pronounced it? I suppose that may be as difficult as finding out how
Edmond Halley (of comet fame, a contemporary of Newton) pronounced it. In
view of the fact that in correspondence these folks didn't even spell
their own names consistently, one wonders how consistent was the
pronunciation then.