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 :It was pronounced ""wee-kee"", while ""vee-chee"" is a much, much later way to pronounce it. (Or, at least, this is what people guess is the ""correct"" pronunciation, as in how Julius Caesar himself and other early first-century BC Romans would have pronounced it, at least other members of Caesar's class and not the lower class, because the real answer is probably ""who knows"").  "