Maybe one of you have the definitive

[jenP_97]

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From: jenP_97
Subject: Re: Maybe one of you have the definitive
Reply To: [Yahoo! #2107] Re: Maybe one of you have the definitive
Date: 6/17/00 1:15 am  (ET)

>>Jim Dale on the tapes of the books says "Her-MI-nee" and the great
 British actress Hermione Gingold said, "Her-MI-nah". Both of these are
 acceptable I think. "Her-mi-ON-nee" or any four-syllable variation is
 definitely wrong.<<

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. J.K. Rowling
herself has told people in interviews that it's pronounced with four
syllables. And I've listened to blurbs (from RandomHouse Audio Books
site) of the books-on-tape, and Jim Dale just sounds like he's running
the syllables together more than leaving one out. (In college, I had to
listen to countless tapes of people speaking in order to write them down
phonetically - I'm positive of this one.)

Jen