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How would you pronounce Caius?

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idontknow54789 · 08/07/2024 17:52

I have heard these, which would you think when you read it?

  1. Kay-us
  2. Kye-us
  3. Keys
  4. Something else?
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behindthemall · 08/07/2024 17:52

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BouleDeSuif · 08/07/2024 17:53

Kye-us

CatrionaBalfour · 08/07/2024 17:54

It's Keys

GoldFrame · 08/07/2024 17:54

It’s Keys

AnneShirleysNewDress · 08/07/2024 17:54

3

ApoodlecalledPenny · 08/07/2024 17:54

Keys

Oneearringlost · 08/07/2024 17:55

It's Keys

ActualChips · 08/07/2024 17:55

Kye-us

Procrastinates · 08/07/2024 17:55

Kye-us

The college is Keys though but I don't think most people would pronounce it that way.

CatrionaBalfour · 08/07/2024 17:55

...
.or if you're not a Cambridge College, Kai-us.

PubicZirconia · 08/07/2024 17:55

Kay-us

Areolaborealis · 08/07/2024 17:55

Ki-us

Melroses · 08/07/2024 17:56

Pronouncing it as "Keys" would be naming your child after an Oxbridge college.

AstonMartha · 08/07/2024 17:56

Chaos 😂

BuffaloCauliflower · 08/07/2024 17:57

Kye-us. The Cambridge college pronounciation is a random made up version

Alwaystimeforacupoftea · 08/07/2024 17:57

Ki-us for a name, Keys for the college.

EveryKneeShallBow · 08/07/2024 17:57

Kye-us

IamaRevenant · 08/07/2024 17:57

Kay-us

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idontknow54789 · 08/07/2024 17:57

Thanks, the college is definitely Keys but from what I've read online the name isn't

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CatrionaBalfour · 08/07/2024 17:57

Alfie or Teddy

AppleCream · 08/07/2024 17:58

I've never heard it as a first name so I would assume Keys like the college.

Procrastinates · 08/07/2024 18:01

BuffaloCauliflower · 08/07/2024 17:57

Kye-us. The Cambridge college pronounciation is a random made up version

Yes it's literally something he completely made up as far as I knew. His name was said as Keys and he used the spelling Caius but kept the pronunciation Keys.

I really don't think many people would say Keys for a baby even if they knew the college was pronounced that way.

JurassicClark · 08/07/2024 18:02

Definitely Kye-us.
I know two and they both pronounce it that way.

BoudiccaOfSuburbia · 08/07/2024 18:03

It’s Ky-us

The college is ‘Keys’ because the benefactor or founder was ‘Keys’ but changed the spelling to make it look more Classical. But kept the pronunciation.

In no other context is Magdalene pronounced ‘Maudlin’. Same with Caius.

The Character in Shakespeare is not pronounced ‘keys’.

MultiplaLight · 08/07/2024 18:04

Kay ee us