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Octavia

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SookieCookie · 26/11/2024 13:42

I love, love, love this name and it’s currently sitting at the top of our list but just wondering how you would automatically pronounce it.

We would say Oct-ay-via like the a in hay but I’ve also heard it pronounced Oct-ah-via like the a in tar.

How would you say it?

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VeryQuaintIrene · 26/11/2024 13:54

Lovely name, but I think I would feel obliged to have 7 others before I could in all honesty use it...

WinterCrow · 26/11/2024 13:50

I would pronounce it the 'classical Roman' way as per the iconic televisual feast I, Clavdivs that saw various mad emperors roaring at female relatives called OctAYvia.

The modern Italian way would be OctAHvia, presumably.

So in UK/English speaking cultural tradition, OctAYvia probably would be the more common pronunciation.