Sirius (need help pronoucing his name)

[alice_loves_cats]

Hiya...

> I have an embarrassing HP problem.  I don't know how to 
> pronounce "Sirius".  I try to avoid using his name in conversations 
> because I can't say it.  This makes it difficult to discuss his role 
> in OOP.  I have tried looking it up in the dictionary but this didn't 
> really help as I can never understand those pronunciation guides.  
> 
> The closest I can come is Sir-re-us (3 syllables) with the accent on 
> Sir. 
> 
> What does everyone else think?

I pronounce it ALMOST like serious, but not quite - "serious" has a
longer first syllable, while the "Si" in "Sirius" is short.

Come to think of it, I got this from a storytape I had when I was
little. The tale's called "The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark", and in
it the Black Cat tells Plop the Owl about Sirius, the Dog Star (no
coincidences there, I'll bet). So Sirius as a name is pronounced just
like Sirius the star constellation, with a short "Si", but otherwise
like "serious". In my book, anyway. :-)

Love, Alice