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To follow up on Hannibal's pronunciation question, I have long noted that some Spenserians refer to that "louely Ladie" who rides beside Redcrosse Knight at the opening of Book I of the Faerie Queene as [phonetically rendered] "Yoo-na" and others as "Oo-na." I have often wondered, is there any particular argument in favor of one pronunciation over the other, or does it chiefly come down to "well, that's the way my teachers pronounced it"? Both pronunciations would seem to have plausible allusive connotations.I have to admit that I pronounce the surname of the author of "Upon Appleton House" as Mar-VELL rather than MAR-vell, and name of the author of "A Rapture" as CARE-ee rather than Cah-REW (or is it CARE-oo?) solely because that's how I was first taught it.ScottProfessor of English
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