prophesai for prophecy

[Benjamin Barrett]

I sit corrected, thank you all. It sounded like a mangled attempt at
Latin to me. AFAIK, I've never heard the noun or verb end any way except
"ee". BB

Wilson Gray wrote:
> According to the OED, the verb is spelled "prophesy," which, a la
> Blanchette, I also pronounce [profIsai] or [prof at sai].
>
> -Wilson
>
> On 10/22/07, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
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>> In "Elizabeth: Golden Age", Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth) seems to say
>> "prophesai" for the verb "prophecy". It's in the scene when she is
>> speaking to the astrologer after she orders Sir Raleigh to prison. I
>> don't think it's for dialect or time period effect, but simply a mistake
>> that wasn't edited.
>>
>> The only part I caught was the last two words of her utterance,
>> "prophecy again". Either earlier in her sentence or in the sentence of
>> her interlocutor, prophet/prophecy (noun) or something similar occurs.
>> That earlier word and/or the vowel in "again" could possibly have had an
>> effect.
>>
>> FWIW.
>>

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