Herm-oh-ninny

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26908

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Angela Burgess" <MmeBurgess at m...> wrote:
> For the same reason that I have 4th year French students who
> *still* can't pronounce a 1st year phrase: "Je veux" (which means
> "I want").  They've heard it and repeated it thousands of times,
> but left to their own devices, they still don't say it right. 
> These are kids who are quite intellingent, they just have
> difficulty pronouncing certain French words.  Imagine the even
> more difficult task of getting your Bulgarian mouth to pronounce
> old English names!

Taking my lead from http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~vladimir/bul-pron.txt

Bulg English
Lett Phon    Examples       Explanation
h    [h]     Hala, Hrian    Like [h] in Happy or [x] in Scottish LoCH
e    [e]     morE, sEno     Like in bEtter
r    [r]     Rob, bRat      Vibrating, somewhat like bRibe
m    [m]     More, kaMyk
a    [a]     mAjka          Like the first sound in [ai] (fIne)
y    [schwa] YgYl, sYr
n    [n]     Nar, koN
i    [i]     nIt, tI        Like in bIt

(Bulgarian in transliteration)

Seems like Krum had all the needed phonemes to approximate Hermione
better than he does, unlike your French students whose native English
phoneme set doesn't distinguish ou, eu, and u....

....Craig