Pronunciation Police! (was Re: Spelling Police)

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 
> You'll get your revenge by heading up the Pronunciation Police.  
> Those who have only read them and never heard them have only their 
> own imaginations (as opposed to Fry's/Dale's, also flawed) as 
> pronunciation guides.  One day we're all going to meet at a 
> convention and then we're going to find out who pronounces 
Voldemort, 
> Cadogan, Bartemius, Animagus etc., correctly (i.e., the same way we 
> do).  
> 
> ;-)
> Amy Z

Excellent point!  I was dismayed at the way Dale pronounced some 
words, also the way he misaccented various syllables, and I felt 
vindicated when I heard The Fry readings: FOR THE MOST PART.

What is everyone's opinion on the following?

In general give the vowel sounds the Latin values, rather than the 
English.

animagus- definitely should have a hard "g" and the third syllable 
should NOT rhyme with May.

animagi- soft "g" this time, I can live with either a long or a short 
"a" in the third syllable.

Bartemius-  accent second syllable

bezoar-  Dale says it to rhyme with bourgeois-- UGH!  Should be first 
syllable accented, "BEE zore"

Cadogan- accent the second syllable, which should rhyme with dug.

Durmstrang- say it as if it was German which it is rhymes with poor 
long.

Enervate- four syllables; Latin vowel sounds

Obliviate- four syllables. Latin values to the vowels

Rubeus-  Dale accents second syllable, which rhymes with day; Fry 
accents first syllable, second syllable rhymes with bee.  I vote for 
Fry's pronunciation

and so forth.....

Haggridd