DH actors

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:


> Are you by any chance using the British edition, and, if so, 
> does it use the spelling "Gregorovich"?


zanooda:

He is spelled with "-vitch" in both editions :-). I also sometimes spell him with "-vich", because, in my view, "t" is not needed here. Names like this are pronounced with the sound "ch" at the end, so I don't know what "t" is doing there :-). That's why sometimes I just write it how I hear it in my head and forget all about "t" :-).


> Carol wrote:

> I checked a site with etymologies for surnames and didn't
> find Gregorovitch in any form, but I did find Grigorescu, 
> which means "son of Grigore" in Romanian and Grigorov, which 
> means "son of Grigor" in Bulgarian. Zanooda can tell us 
> whether "Gregorovitch" has the same meaning in Russian.


zanooda:

We have a name Grigori(or maybe it's Grigoriy :-)), and our version of Gregorovitch would be Grigorovich, so they should be connected. I can't explain the connection well, because, as I said, these surnames are not very typical and they don't sound too Russian. If you asked me about "-ov"... :-). But the "-ich" ending usually belongs to patronymics, so it easily can be "son of", although "-ov" also means "son of", so it seems like too much :-). 


> Carol: 

> maybe Krum bought one of his last wands?


zanooda:

That's what he said at the wedding :-).