PRONUNCIATION OF KHEDIVE.
A party of ministers were lately discussing the true pronunciation of the word Khedive, which events in Egypt have made prominent in English speaking countries. One insisted on Kee-dive, another upon Kee-deeTe, and others upon still different pronunciations, until one member of the party, who had lately returned from Egypt, and who had spoken with the British-protected official himself who bears the name in dispute, set the matter at rest by saying they were all wrong, and that the Egyptian pronunciation is (as far as types can give it) Ked'O-wah. In^ the language used in^f Egypt there is no sound of v, and that letter is orally rendered w, as Derwisb. Pasha for Dervish, &c.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4490, 26 May 1883, Page 2
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118PRONUNCIATION OF KHEDIVE. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4490, 26 May 1883, Page 2
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