Scholastic's heretical pronunciations

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> 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?

Neri:
In my mind I've always pronounced Accio as AK-tsio. I believe the 
Latin C can be pronounced either K or Ts (but never S), and CC will 
be pronounced Kts. But maybe this is some German influence on my 
Hebrew-like Latin?

In Israel we tend to pronounce English words with the Latin-like and 
Greek-like sound. For example, for three and a half HP books I was 
pronouncing Hermione as Her-me-OH-ne (second e as in "me", the last e 
as in "ten"). I still believe this is the correct original sound of 
this Greek name, or anyway much closer than the ridiculous Her-MY-oh-
nee.

Neri