You say Bovine...

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I pronounce it Boh-DEEN, possibly making a mental association with Kathy Boudin, whose membership in the Weather Underground hit the news (around 1970?) after Bodine's first appearance in V, but before I'd read V and GR, in any case.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Prokopis Prokopidis <prokopis at ilsp.gr>
>Sent: Dec 15, 2006 3:20 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: You say Bovine...
>
>Hi,
>
>Just some quick questions on the omnipresent character:
>
>Do you native speakers pronounce the surname's "ine" as in "wine"?
>
>Any chance that it is pronounced differently in some states or regions?
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>P.