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Re: Yes, I know, but I'm looking for the original, Latin pronunication.
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It isn't a Latin name, so there really is none. It has always been pronounced a-LIS-ee-a in England, until very recently when the modern American a-LEESH-a imigrated :-)
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Actually, Alicia is a Latenizied form of Alice...So it is.Sorry, don't mean to be a brat about it.Haven
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Actually, Alicia is not a latenizied form of Alice. Wrong. Alice is an "anglicated" form of Alicia. You should know that Alicia is a name used by romans and they introduced the name in Britannia (today, England).
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FYIIn the entry for Alicia the word Latinate isn't meant to imply that it derives from Latin, but that it is said/spelled in "the Latin way".
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