Rest in peace on a BBC Radio Ulster programme that he would encourage Protestants to refrain from using the term "RIP". Thompson said that he regards "RIP" as a prayer for the dead, which he believes contradicts biblical doctrine. In the same radio programme, Presbyterian Ken Newell disagreed that people are praying for the dead when they use the phrase. Phrases in other languages: Rest in peace The phrase "Rest in peace", RIP, from Latin Requiescat in pace (, )) is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, and Roman Catholic denominations, sometimes to wish
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin listed summarily below. The full set of consonantal phonemes for A-L is almost identical to that of English, lacking only . Environments that condition the appearance of some of these phonemes are listed below: The change of intervocalic to is common but not universal. Voicing is more common in Latin than in Greek words, and never occurs in the common Greek ending "-sis", where "s" is always voiceless: "basis, crisis, genesis". The most common type of phonemic change in A-L is palatalization. A-L reflects the results of no less than four palatalization processes. The first of these occurred in Late