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I really want to know how to pronounce the name Hekate, sometimes spelled Hecate. Thanks!
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Most of us Anglos follow that nice Mr Shakespeare, and he makes it easy for us by using metrical verse. So, when he spells it with an -e on the end, it's Heh ca tee, and when he doesn't, as I say for metrical purposes, it's Heh cat.
The one thing it isn't is heh cate where the cate rhymes with gate. In English conventions the final e lengthens the preceding vowel, but not in Greek, where it gets pronounced. Which is why Chloe rhymes with Joey, not with Joe ...
The one thing it isn't is heh cate where the cate rhymes with gate. In English conventions the final e lengthens the preceding vowel, but not in Greek, where it gets pronounced. Which is why Chloe rhymes with Joey, not with Joe ...
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In its original (ahem, Greek) pronounciation, the accent is on the second syllable in the H is almost silent: eh-KAH-tee
Of couse an Anglosaxon would pronounce it HECK-ah-tea
and a Francophone would go "espece de eh-ka-TEE", go figure...
Of couse an Anglosaxon would pronounce it HECK-ah-tea
and a Francophone would go "espece de eh-ka-TEE", go figure...
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Surely in the 'original' original pronounciation...
..that is, the Ancient Greek one, the h would be pronounced? and the final e would be an ehhh sound?
..that is, the Ancient Greek one, the h would be pronounced? and the final e would be an ehhh sound?
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As far as I know, it's HEH-kah-tee--that's how it was pronunced when I went to see Macbeth.
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Hmm, I've always thought it was HEH-kate, but the site says HEH-kah-tee as well
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This message was edited 2/16/2005, 8:38 PM
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The Royal Navy ship on which I served was always pronounced
HEH KA TEE
HEH KA TEE
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