The English spelling of the city's name is borrowed from French. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was pronounced in English to rhyme with "vague": it was so pronounced by Lady Diana Cooper (born 1892) on Desert Island Discs in 1969, and it is written to rhyme with "vague" in a verse of  The Beleaguered City by Longfellow (1839) and also in the limerick  There was an Old Lady of Prague by Edward Lear (1846). 