From the Main List: Pronunciation of Pensieve and Seamus Threads

[alice_loves_cats]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "(Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The
Healing Force)" <n2fgc at a...> wrote:
> Dicentra spectabilis forwarded:
> | MJ Here:
> |
> | Hi - I'm also a long-time lurker but a new poster here so hopefully
> | I'm doing this right.
> |
> | The Scholastic.com's pronunciation guide says: PEN-siv
> |
> | The link for that is http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/reference/
> | It's also audible so you can hear it pronounced.
> 
> [Lee]:
> All well and good, but for us with text-to-speech screen readers,
who can't
> see the screen, the site is in flash which is utterly useless!  The
words
> are graphically created so they are unreadable, so I can't click on
them to
> hear them.  All I saw was the instructions to "click on any of the
words..."
> and that be that.  Most disappointing!  However, not at all surprising.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lee, the Vexed


Actually, that pronunciation guide says "animagus" with a soft "g",
whereas in the film of POA Snape says it with a hard "g". Just when
I'd got used to the thought of the soft one! So, who knows what's
official...
Love, Alice
(is gratified that her mother tongue has phonetic spelling, so no
mysteries there!) :)