Pronunciation Police! (was Re: Spelling Police)

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 
> > I also pronounce Voldemort with a silent 'T'; whenever I say this 
in
> > front of my friends they look at me as if I am stupid.
> 
> My husband thinks the T is silent as well. Must be a man thing.  <g>
> 
> Which brings me to a related question. The down side of finally 
getting
> one's spouse to read the books is that you move into the realm of
> Interpersonal Relationship Pronunciation Differences. In point at 
the
> moment: Slytherin. I pronounce it with a short /i/, as in "slither." 
He
> pronounces it with a long /I/, as in "sly." Can I have other 
people's
> pronunciations of this?


Slytherin rhymes with slither.  End of story.

Voldemort sounds better to my ear with the "t" silent.  Fry pronounces 
the "t" and I can never get used to it.

Haggridd
> He also says Draco as if it rhymed with "wacko," what can you do?
> 
> --Amanda (he just finished PoA!)
> 
Rhyming Draco with wacko is wacko! (But, as long as he loves you and 
the books, who cares?)

H.