Talk:Opechancanough

Pronounced
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)


 * In school I always remembered the name by saying Opie-can-canoe. I'm not sure if it is the preferred pronunciation, but it seemed to be favored at my University. VirginiaProp 18:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

(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)

Spelling.
The title of this article is not in the most commonly accepted spellings, Opecancanough, or Opechancanough. I was wondering why.

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Move to Opechancanough
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)
 * I think is right, I can't find the Opchanacanough spelling in use before the Wikipedia article was created, and the most reliable sources use Opechancanough. I'll go ahead and move the article.--Cúchullain t/ c  21:53, 26 May 2021 (UTC)