[HPFGU-OTChatter] Pronunciation of Sirius

[Alex Hogan]

I don't know, but we named out new Lab puppy Sirius Black and we pronounce it more like Seh-rius, with the "i" as in "hit". It is the way I have always pronounced the Dog Star's name. Who knows.
   
  Alex Hogan

"Marti L." <marti.lewis at gmail.com> wrote:
          
Hi everyone. I just joined this group yesterday and saw some notes
about Sirius and that it should have a short "i" sound after the first
letter S. Someone here was going to watch HP Prisoner movie again to
check.

I was listening to Stephen Fry on the British audiobook (HPHBP #6) on
the way home from work last night, and he says it just the way we say
"serious" -- long e sound for both of the i's, as in C (cee), seek,
sleet, see. It came up in an Chapter 4 when Harry meets Horace Slughorn
and HS brings up the fact that Sirius is dead.

I'm American (northeast) and had never heard of the short "i"
pronunciation, but when I read the posts here, I figured it was from one
of the English accents. Now that I've heard Stephen Fry say Sirius with
the long ee sound, I don't think it is.

Marti



         

       
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