School Latin (was Bella???)

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Hunt" <mphunt at s...> 
wrote:
> Eloise:
> > As ever, I work on the premise that these words have been 
> anglicised in  
> > pronunciation and so pronounce it 'Ack-sio' on the principal 
that 
> in English,  
> > that is the usual (though far from invariable) pronunciation of 
> double 'c'  
> > preceding 'e' or 'i'. However at least one other person there 
> pronounced  it 
> > 'Ack-shio'. And in Latin, it would be 'Ack-io' ('i's in all 
cases  
> pronounced 'e'). 
> > I can't remember how Stephen Fry pronounces it.
> > Any more variations?


Tcy: 
> With *no* training in Latin (formal or otherwise), I pronounce 
that 
> particular spell AH-see-o.  I'm probably the only one who does so -
 
> but I sometimes think I have an entire language all my own inside 
my 
> head.


Jen: Well, and here's another variation--I've always said "auk-e-o".

Once I hear the correct pronunciation of certain words, either in 
the movies or JKR interview or whatever, I can usually change my 
pronunciation. Like Hagrid used to be Hey-grid in my head when first 
reading the books and now that sounds so strange! I still forget how 
to pronounce Slytherin. Does the first part rhyme with sly or 
slither?