[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Gillywater

[Sue Wartell]

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 --- In HPFGU-OTChatter@ yahoogroups. com, "Carol" <justcarol67@ ...> wrote:


> I think it *is* the flower and that Dale and Fry are simply
> pronouncing "gillywater" wrong, no doubt thinking of "gillyweed".

zanooda:

But weren't PoA audiobooks recorded *before* GoF (the book) was out?
It's only in GoF that gillyweed was introduced. If they were recorded
*after* GoF, then of course it's possible that Dale and Fry were
influenced by "gillyweed" :-).

Now Sue:
And I've always pronounced it like gillyweed, even though the picture in my mind (re: the source of the name) was of the flower.  That's what comes of  reading words that you've never heard pronounced.  And it's still the picture I carry around in my internal version of the stories - not to say anyone else's  version is wrong - simply that in _my_ HP world, it's a drink flavored with gillyflowers, or something resembling the scent of gillyflowers. :-)
 Sue (from a slightly snowy Columbus)    


      

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