Hey Loungers--how do you pronounce "Boccaccio?"

[Lyric]

My better half has to do a group presentation on prominent authors of the European Gothic Age for her Western Civ class today. Her professor keeps pronouncing it "Boo-CHA-cho," but that doesn't seem right, and we don't understand the pronunciation key at Wiki.

Help?

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

1. Bo DIDDLY -O

:hi:

[demmiblue]

2. Google "pronounce Boccaccio"

This is one I came up with:

http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/audio/lunaWAV/B04/B0449700.wav

:hi:

[Lyric]

5. Yes! Wonderful! Thank you!

On a side note, isn't it kind of sad that a Western Civ professor doesn't know how to properly pronounce Boccaccio? Oy vey.

[crispini]

3. If it were me, I'd say

Bo - KA - chee - oh

[malta blue]

4. that is what I would say as well. nt

[Lyric]

6. That what we thought too, but the prof kept pronouncing it the other way.

I guess you can't always trust a college professor to know what the heck he's talking about. Ugh.

[LostinVA]

7. Me too -- I'm half Sicilian

[Heidi]

8. Pronunciation: Joe-vahnee Bo-KAH-Cho

It's not a hard "ee-oh" at the end of Boccaccio. :hi:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

9. Bock-kah-tchoh!

take it from me (Italian 100%). Joe-vahn-knee. Boo-on joe-r-know!

[Heidi]

11. !

:thumbsup: from Ticino! :hi:

[JVS]

10. Ball-sacky-o

[MorningGlow]

12. Ouch!

Just thinking about that pronunciation hurts my 100% Sicilian ears! x(

I hate hate HATE Americanizations of Italian names/words. I used to go into paroxysms of pain during the whole Terry Schiavo drama, because it's NOT pronounced SHY-vo; it's Shee-AH-vo. I think I heard all of two broadcasters pronounce it correctly the entire time.

[Shakespeare]

13. WOW. The prof is embarrassingly wrong.

Amazed some of the students don't snicker audibly when she says that.

Bo-kotch-yo. Slight emphasis on the second syllable.

[Symarip]

14. bukakke-o

:)