why has boudicca/boadicea, got 2 names?

[joko]

pronounced boo dicka and boe diss ear?

surely her name is her name...which one?

thanks

[NazNomad]

http://en.wikipedia.o...dica#Boudica.27s_name

[joko]

thanks naz...mmm interesting - and strange why it would change to boadicea...maybe it was simply that the second C looked a bit like an e and sort of stuck...

[hc4361]

During her lifetime there was no national press, no established correct spelling, the majority were illiterate and regional accents were very pronounced.

[weas]

its a victorian mis spelling

[jno]

in the days when books were written by hand, it only took one spelling mistake to screw things up - and then if the book was copied out by hand by someone else and they got it wrong too (or just didn't write clearly)... Besides which, there don't seem to be any surviving spellings (much less pronunciation guides) from her own people, so we only know what the Romans thought she was called. What she actually called herself, who knows?

[VHG]

>surely her name is her name

Some alphabets, like say Russian, have letters we dont have.

So when you say "a name is a name" how do you say a Russian name to English if we dont have the same letters as them.

Anyway what we call Munich the Germans call Munchen (with some characters over the u) so why has that got two names?

In fact I guess many countries dont call it Munich or Munchen so it probably has many names.

Names are not as simple as that.

[hiflier]

The Italians call Munich Monaco

[boxtops]

Monaco's in the South of France!

Many names have been spelled differently over history - when there was no written language, people interpreted.