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Other Boke(s) ... [wiki++]
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ANGLICIZED JAPANESE: (all pronounced ~ boh-kay or boh-keh)
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ANGLICIZED OTHER:
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- Mongolian has more vowel sounds than in English, and the ending "k" sound is a bit like the Scottish sound at the end of "loch."
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- NOTE: 播客 bō kè (different than above: steady and high tone on first syllable) is the Chinese word for podcast
SUBSIDIARY REFERENCE
- MISC. INTERNATIONAL
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- PEOPLE (HISTORY/DECEASED)
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- MONGOLIA—HISTORIC PERSON: Ariq Böke, grandson of Genghis Khan and a claimant to the Mongol Empire
- MONGOLIA—(LESS) HISTORIC PERSON: Chilger Böke, who may have fathered Genghis Khan's eldest son by his principal wife, Jöchi, after his brother, a Merkit chief, gave her to him as a spoil of war
- ETHIOPIA—HISTORIC PERSON: Abba Boke, the first king of the Kingdom of Gomma in the Gibe region of Ethiopia
- KUBA KINGDOM (PRESENT DAY, CONGO).HISTORIC PERSON: Bope Mobinji Boke, Bushoong Dynasty ruler from 1916 to 1919
- [BOTANY] Boke, among Botanists, Norman Hill Boke Wiktionary:Boke
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- [PLANT:USA/CALIFORNIA/CACTUS] Boke's Button (Epithelantha bokei) Named after Norman Hill Boke by Lyman David (L.D.) Benson[8]
- USA—CALIFORNIA CIVIL SERVANT (FEDERAL)/TRUMAN PERIOD: Richard L. Boke, whose salary Congress voted to cut off (along with his superior) (to satisfy unhappy big California land owners). Point of contention between Congress and President Harry S. Truman. [10]
- [USA REF STUB] Arthur Boke [12]
- USA—AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE: Henry Louis Gate's "crazy" Uncle Boke (Colored People, pp 63, 209-210) (also in [13])
- PEOPLE (LIVING PERSONS)
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- KENYA: A 1.5-year-old Kenyan girl named Boke with a cleft palate who touched Jessica Simpson's heart [14]
- SOUTH AFRICA—FILM STUNT PERFORMER: Lucky Boke, stunt team member, Lord of War
- ITALY—ARTIST: Christine Böke (born 1953) [REF STUB]
- USA.CABLE TV/STAFF: Ephtali Boke, art director for HGTV's "Desperate Spaces"
- PEOPLE/BUSINESS (SELF-PUBLISHING/PRODUCING ARTISTS' BUSINESS FACE)
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- USA—SMALL PRESS, Boke Press, the (personal) press of Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie [15]
- USA—INDIE FILM: Boke Entertainment, Houston-based (horror-genre) production entity of (director/writer) Bob Willems and (actor/writer/producer) Ken Hebert ("S.I.C.K. : Serial Insane Clown Killer," 2003)
- CANADA—INDIE FILM: Boke Films, (aka Boke Inc), production entity of director/producer Bruce Dunggan (The Republic of Love,2003)
- SOUTH KOREA—INDIE FILM: Boke Film, entity of (director/writer/producer) Im Jin-pyeong to sponsor/release Foolish Game ["Pulisi gae-im"] [17]
- FICTIONAL (CHARACTERS, TITLES, OTHER):
- NABOKOV (NOTE: Perhaps fictional alter-ego Boke from Nabokov) [18])
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- NABOKOV CHARACTER: "The writer pictures a descendant of his, Lance, going on an interplanetary voyage." "He describes Emery Lancelot Boke's parents and the night the young man leaves on his journey." [20])
- NABOKOV CHARACTER: A "man named Boke" in Nabokov's short story "Music." [21]
- USA—NOVEL/CHARACTER: Boke Kellum, Western TV star in Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough (1972) [22]
- UK (London).NOVEL/CHARACTER: Mr. Boke, detective in Flight of Faviel, by Robert Ernest Vernède , 1905 [23]
- UK.FILM/CHARACTER: Boke, the 1948 career-launching role of American actor Howard Keel, as an escaped convict with a "spark of decency" in "The Small Voice"
- IRELAND.NOVEL/CHARACTER: Boke family/Mrs. Boke, in Fame, a 1910 romantic novel by Bithia Mary Croker [24]
- USA.NOVEL/CHARACTER: Miss Ethel Boke, a character in the novel Seventeen by Booth Tarkington, 1915
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- NOTE: 1940 film and play based on the novel
- JAPAN.ANIMATED TV CHARACTER: Boke, pet dog of the orphan boy Kcnbo, who travels with the teenage jiujitsu practitioner Sanshiro Kurenai, whose father was murdered by a one-eyed man, in the 1969 Japanese animated television series Judo Boy
- JAPAN.MANGA/ANIME CHARACTER: '"boke-gaeru" ("stupid frog"), Natsumi Hinata's epithet for the leader/"antihero" (and, frog-type alien) Sergeant Keroro in the Japanese animae and manga series Sgt. Frog
- JAPAN.MANGA/ANIME TITLE:: "Fuy.i na Boke to Yasashisa ga Fuk. o Yobu" ( 不用意なボケと優しさが不幸を呼ぶ ) "Careless Gags and Kindness Bring Misfortune," episode 5 of Hayate the Combat Butler
- USA.SONG/TITLE: Bolden Boke Boy, by Will Oldham
- USA.TV CHARACTER: Boke, (Clyde Harvey) in three episodes of " Bananza" ('67-69)
- (NAMED) ANIMALS
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- [USA.AFRICAN TORTOISE] Boke, a 175-pound, 20-year-old Sulcata tortoise (African), at Bay Area Turtle and Tortoise Rescue, Northern California's largest tortoise refuge [26]
ALSO NOTE: THE (GLOBAL) WORD, BOKE
- ENGLISH (HISTORICAL/SCHOLARLY REFERENCE): BOKE / BOOK
- In titles of many English books of the 14th-16th centuries the word "Book" is spelled "Boke," and modern scholarship & commentary often maintains the original spelling in reference: e.g., Thomas Elyot's The Boke named the Governour, Juliana Berners's (?) The Boke of St. Albans, Thomas Phaer's The Boke of Chyldren, Robert Copland's The Boke of Justices of Peace, etc. The OED contains 668 occurrences of the word "boke". all but approximately a dozen are instances where the meaning is "book." (For a list and access to many of them, see Google book search.[27])
- LANGUAGE & DIALECT
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- OTHER SPELLINGS: Robert Burns: "bock"[28] / Jane Austen's period (Regency): "bowke"[29] / ALSO: "bowk," "bolk," "byock," "bok" [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] (NOTE: MASS MEDIA SPOKEN WORDS & WEB SPELLINGS: Scottish dialect on UK television, for example [39], is heard but not spelled; hence, variations in internet spellings.)
- PRONUNCIATION (SYLLABLES)
- TWO SYLLABLES: Most of the primary (top section) entries on this page are pronounced with two syllables.
- EXCEPTIONS / ONE-SYLLABLE: (European and any UK/American), e.g., Boke, Germany." NOTE: Mongolian might be said to be 1 1/2 syllables.
- SARDINIA.WORD THAT IS PRONOUNCED LIKE ONE-SYLLABLE BOKE, BUT LOOKS LIKE TWO SYLLABLES: boche ("voice"), the lead singer in a tenores singing group in the Barbagia region on the island of Sardinia
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