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I saw it as the name of the day and thought it looked interesting, but I honestly haven't got a clue of how to say it.
Any ideas?
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf
Any ideas?
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf
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I found this
www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?bixbou04.wav=Boudicca
www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?bixbou04.wav=Boudicca
This message was edited 12/21/2007, 6:31 PM
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I've always heard it as BOO-di-kah.
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I've also heard BO-(rhymes with row, tow, low) duh-SEE-uh
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Bo-du-SEE-uh is the pronunciation of the variant Boudicea which is a version of the name found in Tacitus and may be a mistranscription.
While I wouldn't normally rely on wikipedia, they have an interesting paragraph on her name which looks well sourced. They cite Kenneth Jackson (a well known Celtic scholar) who says that the original was probably Boudica and pronounced something like bo-DI-ka (bo as in low) although the modern pronunciation is boo-DI-kuh.
Personally, I always stressed the first syllable and that was how I'd heard it said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
While I wouldn't normally rely on wikipedia, they have an interesting paragraph on her name which looks well sourced. They cite Kenneth Jackson (a well known Celtic scholar) who says that the original was probably Boudica and pronounced something like bo-DI-ka (bo as in low) although the modern pronunciation is boo-DI-kuh.
Personally, I always stressed the first syllable and that was how I'd heard it said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
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Thanks!
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