When Did Boadicea Become Boudicca?

[ToraToraTora]

when did hercules become heracles?
When I was at school it was always the former now it's always the latter?

[Leeds60]

Same time sulphur became sulfur

[tonyav]

Gawd knows, took me a while to realize who they were talking about.

[sandyRoe]

And. What happened to BC and AD? Now it's BCE and CE.

[Prudie]

For me it was some time between leaving school and starting to listen to R4 by choice. I still say Bow dissea (and Keenya)

[jourdain2]

Trying to remember.l It happened quite suddenly (T.V. prog. perhaps.?) Nearest I can get is the mid 1970's.

[retrocop]

hiccups ?

[ToraToraTora]

yes prudie I say bow da see ah, too but it's the spelling as well as the pronunciation that seems to have changed. Here's another one I remember Thomas Abecket but now it's Becket, so is history being corrected or what?

[douglas9401]

Gawd knows, I'm still getting over Rhodesia.

[Buenchico]

The only contemporary spelling of our East Anglian hero's name is in the works of Tacitus, where he clearly uses 'Boudicca'.

However that was later mis-transcribed as 'Boadicea' and historians are now correcting that error (and have been doing so for several decades - get with it, TTT!)

The use of 'Common Era' and 'Before Common Era' is preferable to the use of 'Anno Domini ' and 'Before Christ' because:
(a) there's inconsistency in using abbreviations that mix Latin with English ; and
(b) non-Christians (like me) object to the use of 'the Lord' ('Domini') in reference to someone whom we don't regard as such.

[Prudie]

Is it not the implication that we were taught wrongly? Or perhaps it's just fashion. Hasn't the pronunciation of Cicero (sissero kickero) swapped back and forth over centuries?

[ToraToraTora]

and when did Nessalls become neslay?

[tonyav]

I remember it being Nestles.

[Buenchico]

The use of 'Thomas Becket' (rather than 'Thomas à Becket) is also simply reverting to contemporary usage. There are no references to the longer version of his name until after the Reformation.

Now, to avoid having to think about any other name changes, I think that I'll eat some Peking Duck, accompanied by Bombay Potatoes, while sitting on my Persian rug and trying to read up on Leningrad while simultaneously watching Miss Saigon ;-)

[Prudie]

And stroking your Myanmar - ese

[Prudie]

and Thailand - ese

[Buenchico]

If I only stroke my Myanmar-ese, Prudie, my Thailand-ese will get jealous!

[ToraToraTora]

yes tony but it was always pronounced Nessalls.

[Buenchico]

Oh, you've beaten me to it!