You know when you can't hear your speakers, and you keep turning various volume controls up higher and higher in confusion, and then someone hits the mute button and there's a deafening blast of sound? That's basically what happened at Chernobyl.
In a tribute to classical Latin, I started pronouncing it 'per-kent.' Eventually my friends had to resort to spritzing me with a water bottle like a cat to train me out of it.
Actually, we have a pretty good idea how Classical Latin was pronounced by examining poetry - rhyme and meter tell us a lot about pronunciation. Also, commenting to the bot here will not reach Randall...