Message: "Re: Portia or Porcia?"

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Re: Portia or Porcia?

by Manipura (glaucous)

5/10/2020, 7:14 AM

I'm not referring to a legit pronunciation, just an intuitive one. My instinct is to pronounce the T, as in Port instead of Portion.
I also pronounce Lucia and Marcia as three syllables, not Loo-sha, Mar-sha.

I don't pronounce Porcia with a hard C. It just reminds me of pork because I see porcine.

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- Cake or Death (queenv) +1

5/10/2020, 7:18 AM

Oh, I was focusing on the possibility of Porcia being mispronounced and it didn't even occur to me that anyone would think Portia is pronounced PORT-ee-a. But maybe, I dunno.

- Manipura (glaucous)

5/10/2020, 7:27 AM

Actually I just remembered that all Cs in Latin are hard Cs, so Porcia looking like Porkia makes sense.

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