pronunciation guide

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 11433

Heidi wrote: "The website at http://www.scholastci.com/harrypotter has the
pronunciation guide which shows it pronounced the exact same way Steve's
Lexicon shows it - which means of course, that Steve is right."

I am going to argue here with the reasoning. I am not going to disagree with
the suggested pronunciations of Draco - I have no real feeling about that
matter.

In the Scholastic guide you get Voldemort (silent t) and I believe Dale uses
the same pronunciation in his readings of the books. Fry uses Voldemort
(with the t pronounced). This gives us an apparent conflict. One of these
has to be wrong (maybe both are wrong). Just because the Scholastic guide
has one pronunciation does not mean that it is right.

Jo has apparently agreed with the Fry pronunciations (in the Radio Times
Christmas edition there were comments about Jo liking Fry's readings and
agreeing with them), but I bet there is some interview in which a similar
comment is made about the Dale recordings.

So how do we know that the Scholastic guide is right? We don't. Or do we put
this down to the American editions being not only having words changed in
the written format, but also in the audio format?


Simon
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