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[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Question: how is "Phillippa" pronounced?

Philippa is my mom's birth name but like all her brothers and sisters she now uses an American name. It's pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. (Phil-LIP-ah)

I've read that Philippa Gregory was born in Kenya. I haven't been able to find out her ancestry. She may pronounce it differently than Italians, such as my mother, would but it's a safe guess that it's similar.

[SWTXBelle]

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt - The Story of a daughter and a mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart. Fascinating biography and social history.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

Philippa is my mom's birth name but like all her brothers and sisters she now uses an American name. It's pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. (Phil-LIP-ah)

I've read that Philippa Gregory was born in Kenya. I haven't been able to find out her ancestry. She may pronounce it differently than Italians, such as my mother, would but it's a safe guess that it's similar.

Thank you! Just to make sure, it's LIP, not LEEP, right? There seems to be dozens of Phillippas in English history (including Chaucer's wife), and I've always gone out of my way not to say the name out loud!



For non-fiction fans, I'm reading Blood On The Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It's quite possibly the best book on the Lincoln assassination I've ever read - and I've read a lot of them.