Pronouncing Accio

[Amanar]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan \(Intl Vendor\)" 
<v-tregan at m...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I said:
> > What a great link. I had more right than 
> > I was expecting, though there were some 
> > surprises 
>  
> DAH-fid replied:
> > This sort of thing makes me cross. 
> [snip] 
> > 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'.
>  
> OK, I will do that in future da-VEED.
>  
> My education came at a time when the UK educational system (at least
> comprehensive / state schools) seemed to shy away from teaching 
anything
> formal about the language. The only time I studied rigorous grammar 
was
> in German lessons! Hence I am apprehensive about my own use of 
English.
> Because of that, I like authoritative explanations of things (OED,
> Fowler, etc), which is why I liked the Scholastic site. It doesn't 
say
> that it might be pronounced this way or that way, it just states 
it. But
> you're right day-VID, Scholastic isn't JKR or the OED or even HPfGU.
>  
> I agree with you about the pronunciation of Lestrange too deh-AV-
id, the
> chance of English folk choosing to pronounce Lestrange the French 
way is
> slim indeed, even with their French motto that Anamar pointed out. 
That
> said, I know a family with the surname Death, which they pronounce
> DE-ath.
>  
> Anamar said:
> > However, I still don't accept their 
> > pronunciation of "Animagus". 
> > Animagi is fair and understandable ('i' after 'g' 
> > makes it sound like 'j'), but how on earth did 
> > they make Animagus sound like 
> > An-i-MAYJ'us?! An-i-mah-goose sounds better to me...
> > Am I the only one who thought Knuts should be 
> > pronounced like 'nuts'?
>  
> The OED actually gives the UK and US pronunciation of magus, the
> singular version of magi (like the three wise men). Unfortunately, 
it is
> written in a bizarre phonetics alphabet which I don't understand. I
> doubt Yahoo will render it well either, but let's try:
> Brit. / me g s/, U.S. /megs/  
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Dumbledad.

Well, I've checked www.dictionary.com, who also have that bizzare 
phonetic thing, but fortunately also have a pronounciation key.
(the link: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=magus)

And guess what? I was right! magus should be pronounced may-guss (u 
like in circus) while magi should be pronounced may-jie (ie like in 
pie)

(nobody answered my Knuts question...)

Amanar (a-ma-NAR :)