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

[ender_w]

I'm American and pronounce things however i darn well please...at least while reading to myself.  When i teach, my pronunciation, is of course, perfect (yeah, right)

Dray-coe: I know almost everyone says it this way, but i just think Drah-co sounds cooler.  Besides, Dray-coe reminds me of Brake-o or Wake-oze.

Lu-cy-us: In American phonics, the diphthong "ci" is typically pronounced /sh/, so therefore, I pronounce it Loo-shus...but that's just my choice.

I know it's supposed to be Kuh-noot, but i say Kuh-nut.

Here's a question for all of you pronunciation LOONs: How do you pronounce "Dobby"?
According to American phonics rules it should be pronounces DAH-bee, but when i was reading it to a group of fourth graders, one of them had a fit because he said that his mother pronounces it DOE-bee, so that's how it has to be pronounced.
I didn't bother arguing.  Dah-bee, Doe-bee, it didn't much matter to me. But I'm curious to know how other people pronounce it.

ender
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Neil Ward 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Pronunciation Police! (was Re: Spelling Police)


  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
  ________________________________________

  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]




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