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How is his name pronounced?
I am thinking that it is one of these.
O-pek-an-can-oog
O-pek-an-can-owg
O-pek-an-can-off
Please clarify this. 67.188.172.165 22:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
:) None of those. Professors who do not speak Algonquin, let alone the relevant dialect, are taught by others that's also true of. Many think the tribes in the Powhatan Confed are gone, and do not call them & ask. Add on a current Virginia southern US accent many tribal members speak with now, and have all their lives & the fact that most speak none of the language, and it's not easy. An Algonquin speaking linguist going by a more documented related language would be guessing. They just find a way to pronounce it to refer to him & other historical figures so they can teach, using European expectation, in guessing. The record is oral, among the people. A lot of scholars discount that history, unpublished. But it is not like a rumor. It is memorized carefully & repeated verbatim to prevent that. So. With the C having a hard sound, it's pronounced, "Oh-peh-can'-cah-nuh," (last syllable a bit guttural, with an out-breath, but is just an h, no g & no f sounds.) or "Oh-peh-can'-cuh-naw." (Aw as in draw) Those are the two variations, in his own people's pronunciation. Older people He is an ancestor. It is also usually spelled Opecancanough, among the People, sometimes an h after the first c. The other is an age old misspelling by a semi literate a equivalent of a typo, where they leave out the e. But that 2nd syllable is the shortest, said really fast almost like there's an eh shaped puff of breath after the Op. I hope that helps more than it confuses. Remember, the English writing it were being phonetic, and it is spelled at the end like lough, for lake, where the g is silent and after the ou's ah sound, it's just air. That was the closest spelling they knew. You could contact the Pamunkey Museum, to hear it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.2.145.179 ( talk) 11:24, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
The title of this article is not in the most commonly accepted spellings, Opecancanough, or Opechancanough. I was wondering why.
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The spelling Opechancanough is overwhelmingly more common and is the spelling universally found in the original texts such as John Smith's memoirs. It also more correctly matches the Algonquian etymology. In fact, I have yet to find an original source with the spelling Opchanacanough and it only appears in books written during the 2000s. I propose that this page be moved to Opechancanough on these grounds. TheLateDentarthurdent ( talk) 14:37, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
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How is his name pronounced?
I am thinking that it is one of these.
O-pek-an-can-oog
O-pek-an-can-owg
O-pek-an-can-off
Please clarify this. 67.188.172.165 22:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
:) None of those. Professors who do not speak Algonquin, let alone the relevant dialect, are taught by others that's also true of. Many think the tribes in the Powhatan Confed are gone, and do not call them & ask. Add on a current Virginia southern US accent many tribal members speak with now, and have all their lives & the fact that most speak none of the language, and it's not easy. An Algonquin speaking linguist going by a more documented related language would be guessing. They just find a way to pronounce it to refer to him & other historical figures so they can teach, using European expectation, in guessing. The record is oral, among the people. A lot of scholars discount that history, unpublished. But it is not like a rumor. It is memorized carefully & repeated verbatim to prevent that. So. With the C having a hard sound, it's pronounced, "Oh-peh-can'-cah-nuh," (last syllable a bit guttural, with an out-breath, but is just an h, no g & no f sounds.) or "Oh-peh-can'-cuh-naw." (Aw as in draw) Those are the two variations, in his own people's pronunciation. Older people He is an ancestor. It is also usually spelled Opecancanough, among the People, sometimes an h after the first c. The other is an age old misspelling by a semi literate a equivalent of a typo, where they leave out the e. But that 2nd syllable is the shortest, said really fast almost like there's an eh shaped puff of breath after the Op. I hope that helps more than it confuses. Remember, the English writing it were being phonetic, and it is spelled at the end like lough, for lake, where the g is silent and after the ou's ah sound, it's just air. That was the closest spelling they knew. You could contact the Pamunkey Museum, to hear it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.2.145.179 ( talk) 11:24, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
The title of this article is not in the most commonly accepted spellings, Opecancanough, or Opechancanough. I was wondering why.
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The spelling Opechancanough is overwhelmingly more common and is the spelling universally found in the original texts such as John Smith's memoirs. It also more correctly matches the Algonquian etymology. In fact, I have yet to find an original source with the spelling Opchanacanough and it only appears in books written during the 2000s. I propose that this page be moved to Opechancanough on these grounds. TheLateDentarthurdent ( talk) 14:37, 26 May 2021 (UTC)