Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron

The goddess Hecate can be pronounced either 'heck-a-tee' or 'heck-ate', the latter being used here. It likely began with actors performing William Shakespeare plays (which often listed Roman deities), who, seeing the name in print, supplied their own pronunciation. Those pronunciations then became established as a Shakespearean theatre convention and have migrated from popular culture into everyday speech whenever ancient figures are discussed. Honoured Shakespearean performers still render Jacques and Marseilles as "Jakies" and "Marsellus" in the context of the plays, and use the "ay" sound (rather than the classical "ah") for the a's in Cleopatra and Coriolanus, the latter often proving especially amusing.