(OT) The Epitome of Innocence (was: Was it Just Me?)

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 10504

> tammy wrote:

>> Was anyone else surprised at the pronunciation of Hermione's name?
>> I'm humbled to admit that I've been pronouncing it the same way as
>> Krum... "Hermy-own"!!

(schwa)-MAN-d(schwa) wrote:

> It's a classical name, but not common name in America; I don't know
> about across the pond.

There is a famous actress named Hermione: Hermione Gringold? I may be
muddling her surname...can anyone deobfuscate?

> About the only place you're likely to come across
> it in modern experience is if you studied Shakespeare, so your confusion
> is understandable.

Gawd, Shakespearean pronunciations. My sword, Iago...

> We all do this sort of thing. My own mental
> pronunciation of epitome was "EH-pi-tome" for years until I heard it
> spoken <snip>

LOL! I did *exactly* the same thing...except that I actualy said EH-pit-owm
during a reading in a school service. And the amusing thing is that I had no
clue I was doing it! I knew that "eh-PIT-uh-mee" was a word, and just
assumed that epitome was epi (as in epigram, epigraph, epilation) + tome
(book). I had no idea what the resulting construction would mean...

--JOHN (who once had a freind [sic] who spelled it Jhon...)

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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