Scholastic's heretical pronunciations

justcarol67 justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 20 21:51:37 UTC 2004


David wrote:
> 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

Carol responds:
I was wondering what anyone else thinks of Scholastic's pronunciation
of "Accio" as "AH seo." Surely if it's derived from Latin, it must be
pronounced "AH keo"? The Romans used the letter "S" for the "s" (soft
"c") sound and used "C" for the "k" (hard "c") sound. (The letter "K",
which was superfluous, dropped out of use in Latin but was revived by
the English after the Norman Conquest for use in English words of
Saxon origin.)

Is the "Ah seo" pronunciation JKR's? If not, does anyone know where
Scholastic got the idea that it's pronounced that way? And how is it
pronounced in the British and American audiotapes?

Carol, who is not quite as adamant as David about Scholastic (and JKR)
having no authority to dictate pronunciation but still thinks that "AH
seo" is an egregious error







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