magnaatum

Updated: May 2, 2025

"Sir, I will hear no more on it. Besides being a most false and impudent figment, as I can testify it is Scandaalum Magnaatum, sir Scandaalum Magnaatum" he reiterated with a broad accentuation of the first vowel, well known in the colleges of Edinburgh and Glasgow, which we can only express in print by doubling the said first of letters and of vowels, and which would have cheered the cockles of the reigning monarch had he been within hearing, as he was a severer stickler for what he deemed the genuine pronunciation of the Roman tongue, than for any of the royal prerogatives, for which he was at times disposed to insist so strenuously in his speeches to Parliament.

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel