On 15 Mar, 20:19, Andy Champ wrote:
toad wrote:
On 13 Mar, 19:39, Andy Champ wrote:
toad wrote:
I've just read a biography of Boudica.
While we are on the pedantry trail - two Cs, or else you can't misread
it as Boadicea.

Clue: It wasn't misread as Boadicea from an English language text.
In short, you can, with some credibility, spell the name/title of the
Iceni warrior Queen any way you wish. What you can't do with any
credibility is tell someone else how they should spell it.

My understanding was that
Boadicea came out of a misreading of some 19th century academics
handwriting. This could easily be an urban legend - certainly Wikipedia
disagrees with me on that (and on the spelling...)

That's true apart from the date, but as a I said above, the mistake
was in translation _from_ ancient Latin. Hardly an indicator of modern
English.

which tends to say that "current English" is as I have it, even though
I'm wrong.

I didn't say you were wrong. _You_ were telling me _I_ was wrong.