Scholastic's heretical pronunciations

[davewitley]

Lee wrote:

> 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.

IMO, you are better off without it.

If they can't see that, if a galleon is a big valuable ship that 
used to carry gold, and a sickle is a middle-sized blade that shines 
brightly like silver, then a knut might well be a small brown object 
coloured like bronze, they are probably not worth listening to.

Remember, these are the people who told JKR she'd got the wand order 
wrong when she hadn't, and plunged the fandom into endless confusion.

Seriously, it's up to us all how we think these words should be 
pronounced: JKR has no authority once they have escaped into the 
wild, and Scholastic certainly haven't.

David, not suffering fools gladly today