[HPFGU-OTChatter] Pronunciation Police! (was Re: Spelling Police)

[Neil Ward]

Being typically English, I pronounce most of the HP names as they appear or
as they are commonly used in British English... in my head, at least:-

VOL-duh-morT (he's not French; the name is an anagram)
DRAY-coe
Her-MY-oh-nee
RUBY-uss
LUCY-uss
REE-muss
SHAY-muss
Kuh-NOOT
FLIT-ick (Flitwick is a village in Bedford; the 'w' is not pronounced
..can't get it out of my head)
SEDD-rick
SLITHER-in
GRIFFIN-door
CRUMB

Bezoar threw me too.  Never heard of it.  I took my lead from a town I know
called Bozeat, which is pronounced BOH-jhut, and decided on Bejh-WAR.  I
know it's wrong...

Neil
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Flying Ford Anglia

"The cat's ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely
a bit bow-legged and its face looked grumpy and oddly
squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall"
["The Leaky Cauldron", PoA]