Thicknesse: Question on Pronunciation

[Elizabeth Snape]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "marion11111" 
<marion11111 at ...> wrote: 
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<snip>  Hey, there you go - are "very" and "vary" the same for you?  
They are for 
> me.
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Yes, they are. 

I tried Sirius once more and *finally* got it! LOL Seems to me the 
word divides more like 'si-ri-us' instead of 'sir-i-us' as it is in 
the dictionary.  That takes care of my difficulty with the 'r' sound.

Snape's Witch