Bella???

[Tracy Hunt]

Tcy asks:
> Is there any agreement how to pronounce the name Bellatrix?
> 

Cassie answers:
> Well, in the American audio books it is pronounced  bell-LAH-
tricks.  I've 
> also heard the star Bellatrix is pronounced bell-LAY-tricks   among 
my astronomy 
> friends.  

Tcy again:
Thanks, Cassie.  I wasn't nearly as far off as I thought.  I was 
saying BELL-a-tricks.  The funny thing is that I assumed (yeah, I 
know about that word) that it was the last syllable I was messing 
up.  I was sure there was something I was missing in the way to 
pronounce the 'trix' ending.

Tcy
(who still waffles back and forth about a voiced or silent T at the 
end of Voldemort)