How do you pronounce "Godiva"?

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MithShrike

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guh-die-vuh... That's how he said it on Jeopardy and you know how they are for pronunciation. Alright.
 

Siddhartha

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Originally posted by: j@cko
Do you articulate it as GO-DIVA or GOD-DIVA? What exactly is the proper pronounciation?

Go?di?va \ge-"di-ve\ noun
: an English earl's wife who in legend rode naked through Coventry to save its citizens from a tax

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Martin

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Originally posted by: prodigy
Originally posted by: Vortex22
Originally posted by: yobarman
guh dive ah


<best verse EVAR!>

Godiva was a lady well endowed there was no doubt,
She never wore a stitch of clothes, just wound her hair about.
The first man ever made her was an Engineer, of course,
But on just one beer, an artsie queer once made Godiva's horse.

</best verse EVAR!>