Coffee 12:12 Sun Sep 27
Boadicea or Boudicca?
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Which one is correct?
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Far Cough
12:14 Sun Sep 27
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Boudica (/ˈbuːdɨkə/; alternative spelling: Boudicca, also known as Boadicea /boʊdɨˈsiːə/ and in Welsh as Buddug [ˈbɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡ])[1] (d. AD 60 or 61) was a queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
HTFHYFC
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Coffee
12:15 Sun Sep 27
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Buddog??
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Hammer and Pickle
12:15 Sun Sep 27
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Dunno, but the Ladybird book drawing of her in a chariot razing and pillaging gave me one of my first boners.
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Far Cough
12:18 Sun Sep 27
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Err, yes, in Welsh
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lowermarshhammer
12:28 Sun Sep 27
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I doubt she could spell it herself she was too busy having it large drinking mead served by her crew of hard nut wenches covering herself in woad and water boarding errant Romans.
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Hugh Monteith
12:30 Sun Sep 27
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I don't know
I never met her within the exactitudes of her actual name.
But she was here and I can still trace her former presence Within the folds of my home defence manual
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gph
12:52 Sun Sep 27
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Hang on, I'll just ask Vercingetorix.
Or is it Vergentorix?
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Mike Oxsaw
1:30 Sun Sep 27
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"i" before "e", except after "c", so fucked if I know.
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Mr Anon
1:30 Sun Sep 27
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I did a degree in Archaeology and it was stated both are fine as non one really knows, but the lecturers all used ka instead of cia.
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Hammer and Pickle
1:33 Sun Sep 27
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One notes the first wave of migrant Saxons hadn't even arrived from the mainland yet - that didn't happen until hundreds of years later.
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Nurse Ratched
1:38 Sun Sep 27
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Mr Anon. Nailed on has a whip and a battered fedora hat.
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Finnish Ironing
1:39 Sun Sep 27
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Nurse = Hugh Monteeth
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Hugh Monteith
1:48 Sun Sep 27
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Finns
I beg your pardon .
Chortles manfully alongside the typhoo and inside the gingered nuts .
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Hammer and Pickle
1:54 Sun Sep 27
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It's supposed to mean Victoria.
So, not only ginger but also a severe speech impediment.
Formidable lady, by all accounts.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
11:45 Sun Sep 27
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The name Boadicea results from a spelling mistake by one of Tacitus's scribes.
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bruuuno
11:50 Sun Sep 27
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I say Boudicaa. I've always thought that as being the English word for it whereas bodecea is the roman word, although I base that on zero facts.
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bruuuno
11:51 Sun Sep 27
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Hammer and Pickle 1:54 Sun Sep 27
ag
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Mr Anon
3:25 Mon Sep 28
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero 11:45 Sun Sep 27
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The name Boadicea results from a spelling mistake by one of Tacitus's scribes.
But there was no correct spelling per se, Celtic was an oral language, so whenever it was written in Latin, the scribe wrote what he pleased, hence the ambiguity today.
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