Pronouncing Accio

[davewitley]

Christine:
> At the Scholastic Harry Potter website, they have a pronunciation 
guide.
> I found that I was pronouncing a whole lot of stuff wrong.
> http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/reference/
> <http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/reference/>  (click on 
guide at
> bottom of page)

Tim:
 
> What a great link. I had more right than I was expecting, though 
there
> were some surprises 

This sort of thing makes me cross.  It's good to be humble and 
teachable about one's own pronunciation, but Scholastic are 
<i><b>*NOT!!!*</b></i> an authority.  I would trust HPFGU members 
over them any day.

So don't say 'I was wrong' or 'I was more right than expected', 
say 'they had some interesting suggestions which I'm prepared to 
accept, and in other cases (e.g. Lestrange) they were clearly off 
the wall'.

David