pronunciation

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No: HPFGUIDX 9029

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Simon Biber" <simon at b...> wrote:
> >  Because of Dale's British accent I thought Dumbledore's
> > phoenix was named Forks!
> 
> Forks and Fawkes are homophones, at least in my dialect 
(Australian). Would
> you pronounce them differently?

Yup.  In my dialect of US English, they're quite different.  For one 
thing, the "r" in "Forks" is voiced.  For another, the "aw" 
in "Fawkes" is said the way you'd lean over a baby:  "Awwww..."  
The "o" in "Forks"--well, how can I describe it to someone who 
pronounces vowels differently?  (Linguists have a notation to deal 
with this but I don't know it!)  It's somewhere in between 
that "awwww" and a long "o" as in "bone."  

All of which is to say that you and Jim Dale both have much nicer 
accents than mine. 

Amy Z