US Conventional

Many Seminaries in the US use a heavily modified version of Erasmian that avoids any sounds that are difficult for speakers of American English to produce. Additionally, English has many loanwords from Greek, meaning that English has its own pronunciation for certain words inherited from Greek. This system will often borrow those pronunciations back into the Greek pronunciation. This system is not coherent, and will vary wildly depending on the English accent of the speaker. The values given below are an attempt to give a rough idea of how this system works. This pronunciation evolves some aspirates to their modern values, but often deaspirates χ. It diphthongizes many monophthongs when US English would do the same. π, τ, χ, and κ are often aspirated at the start of words, as in English.