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Coffee 12:12 Sun Sep 27
Boadicea or Boudicca?

Which one is correct?

WHOicidal Maniac 11:27 Mon Sep 28
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Coffee 11:24 Mon Sep 28
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She bloody did mate. No bloody PRIDE.

Wouldnt catch me doing that...

Coffee 11:24 Mon Sep 28
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WHOicidal Maniac 11:15 Mon Sep 28

Are you saying that she welcomed migrants to Britain?

WHOicidal Maniac 11:15 Mon Sep 28
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She was happy enough to have the Romans over here, happy enough to watch them fuck over the neighbours who didnt want them here and take their money, poke their language and worshiped their GODS then complained like fuck when her lot got a taste of Roman hospitality ..

Fucking Roman apologist...deserved it !

riosleftsock 10:12 Mon Sep 28
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Romans used to love writing shit down. It seemed a bit strange to our lot.

They also loved maps.

When being guided around a roman cartographer reached a river and asked the local guide what it was called, he replied Avon. So the romans named it river avon.

Didn't realise that the welsh for river is afon and the anglicised version was avon.

Hence loads of rivers called River River.

Not sure how true but it makes a good story.

Finnish Ironing 10:11 Mon Sep 28
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What kind of parents would call their daughter Boadicea anyway?

Fivetide 9:54 Mon Sep 28
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I was always taught that her name meant victory and evolved into 'Victoria'. Roman inscriptions go with a hard 'k' or 'c', so most historians would say it would most likely have been pronounced 'Bow-di-ka'. Even in those oldest versions though, we only have the written word of her enemies to go by, and it's probable that she was actually just referred to as the equivalent of queen, your majesty, ma'am, mother or some such by her own people. It's certainly not wrong to pronounce it either way, but you'll more than likely be 'corrected' if you use 'Boadicea', and your children will learn Boudicca at school.

ironsofcanada 8:41 Mon Sep 28
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If Shakespeare could not get his own name "right," not sure there is much use arguing about a name almost 1500 years earlier.

stomper 3:33 Mon Sep 28
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Its pronounced 'Ratched'

Mr Anon 3:25 Mon Sep 28
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero 11:45 Sun Sep 27
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The name Boadicea results from a spelling mistake by one of Tacitus's scribes.


But there was no correct spelling per se, Celtic was an oral language, so whenever it was written in Latin, the scribe wrote what he pleased, hence the ambiguity today.

Hammer and Pickle 11:58 Sun Sep 27
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as in buggaa?

bruuuno 11:51 Sun Sep 27
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Hammer and Pickle 1:54 Sun Sep 27


ag

bruuuno 11:50 Sun Sep 27
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I say Boudicaa. I've always thought that as being the English word for it whereas bodecea is the roman word, although I base that on zero facts.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 11:45 Sun Sep 27
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The name Boadicea results from a spelling mistake by one of Tacitus's scribes.

Hammer and Pickle 1:54 Sun Sep 27
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It's supposed to mean Victoria.

So, not only ginger but also a severe speech impediment.

Formidable lady, by all accounts.

Hugh Monteith 1:48 Sun Sep 27
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Finns

I beg your pardon .

Chortles manfully alongside the typhoo and inside the gingered nuts .

Finnish Ironing 1:39 Sun Sep 27
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Nurse = Hugh Monteeth

Nurse Ratched 1:38 Sun Sep 27
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Mr Anon. Nailed on has a whip and a battered fedora hat.

Hasans Fish Bar RIP 1:36 Sun Sep 27
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CAMULODNUM

Hammer and Pickle 1:33 Sun Sep 27
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One notes the first wave of migrant Saxons hadn't even arrived from the mainland yet - that didn't happen until hundreds of years later.

Mr Anon 1:30 Sun Sep 27
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I did a degree in Archaeology and it was stated both are fine as non one really knows, but the lecturers all used ka instead of cia.

Mike Oxsaw 1:30 Sun Sep 27
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"i" before "e", except after "c", so fucked if I know.

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