Was Edgar Cayce's name pronounced "Casey"?

Factual Questions
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  1. Was Edgar Cayce’s name pronounced “Casey”. Cecil says it was but the Columbia Encyclopedia says otherwise.

Now there is a town in South Carolina called Cayce which is pronounced “Casey” but there’s no indication they are related.

  1. How do I search the Forums to see if this has been discussed already? The FAQ say to click on the search link on the top of most pages. What search link on the top of most pages?
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Hi woozy. I can answer question #2. Guests are unable to search. I tried a search for “cayce pronounce” and got back “no matches”.

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You, being a guest, cannot search the forums. That is a “privilege” of membership.
Welcome to the Message Board, and we hope you find it interesting enough to stay and pony up membership fees (a nominal sum per year). :slight_smile:

When starting a new thread, it is considered good form to include a link to the article you are discussing. That can be done easily by cutting and pasting the url into your message. This way, everyone knows the material to which you are referring.

In this case, the article under discussion presumably is What’s the scoop on Edgar Cayce, the “Sleeping Prophet”? This is not an article from Uncle Cecil, but rather an article from a member of his Advisory Board. A moderator will be along shortly to move this thread to the appropriate forum, Comments on Staff Reports.

Prior threads on this article do not appear to have discussed the pronounciation of his name. :slight_smile:

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As to the pronounciation, although some brief encyclopedic references like the one you link assert the pronounciation is as one syllable, Wikipedia asserts it is two syllables, like Casey. There is no citation given for that specific assertion, but the page is quite thoroughly developed, with a ton of references, and I suspect that, if it were inaccurate, the Cayce experts would have corrected it. :slight_smile:

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Welcome to the SDMB, woozy.

Since your question is only tangentially related to the Staff Report that inspired it, I’ll move this thread to our forum for miscellaneous queries, General Questions.

bibliophage
moderator CCC

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Having been to the ARE building in VA Beach a couple to times, I can tell you the people who work there pronounce it like “Casey” (two syllables).

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I have seen one or two documentaries about Cayce on networks such as the History Channel and have always heard the narrator pronounce it as “Casey” with two syllables.