Message: "Frideswide" - Behind the Name

[Facts] Frideswide

by ari.

12/15/2023, 9:41 AM

How is the name Frideswide pronounced in English? I know it comes from the Old English Friðuswiþ, but how is the name of the saint pronounced nowadays?

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masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080

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- Anneza +1

12/15/2023, 9:31 PM

I've heard it (on local radio, referring to the church of St Frideswide in Oxford) sound like Fried Swied. Both vowels the same, emphasis on the first syllable..

- ari.

12/16/2023, 12:39 AM

Thank you!

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