[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Pronunciation (was Puddings)

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

Snape's Witch:
>  Versailles the
>  way it's spelled, no fancy French for us Hoosiers.

Um...I know this will sound a touch odd, but can you try to spell out
the pronunciation? To me, Versailles, pronounced French-proper, is
spelled the way it's spelled, so I just can't wrap my head around your
comment.

But speaking of French words being bastardized, you
Philadelphian/Pennsylvanian folks know this one: York-Dauphin. I
remember being on a train hearing this stop being announced, and my
brain literally could not wrap it's narrow mind around this
pronunciation. To this day, I can't do it. I know it's stubborn and
wrong of me to not accept regional variances like this, but 'dauphin'
is, to me, Charles in the Joan of Arc stories, not a sea mammal
(dolphin).  It's stubborn. I know! But I can't help it! For the first
17 years of my life, a stewardess was a hostess de l'air, and when I
point my camera in the direction of the sun, the problem was (and
still is) con soleil. I'm sorry; my parents have raised me weird.

~Ali, who was first taught British English and now speaks sometimes
odd American English