pronunciation help: Draco

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 11362

John wrote:

> IIRC, JKR herself, during that Desert Island Discs interview posted 
aaaages
> ago, pronounces it DRAYko. Stephen Fry pronounces it thus on the 
audiobooks
> he read.
> 
> You could explain it away by saying that DRAHko would be Church 
Latin (which
> pronounces Vs as Vs and not Ws, and other funny pronunciation 
differences).
> Plus, he's English, not Roman.


And just think:  if it weren't DRAYko, CM couldn't have rhymed it with 
Waco in his "Bounce off the Wall" filk.  Now THAT would have been a 
loss for the literary world.

Amy Z
still laughing over that line

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 Draco in leather-
ahhh- but what's his sexual 
 orientation?
               -HP Haiku #712
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