[HPforGrownups] Pronunciation of Fortescue

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 35120

coriolan_cmc2001 wrote:

> I recently wrote a filk in which I assumed that the surname of
> Florean Fortescue (he of the ice cream parlor in PoA, Chap. 4) was a
> three-syllable word (For-tes-cue). It now occurs to me that perhaps
> it is a two-syllable word (For-tesk). Could someone enlighten me?
> 
> - CMC (who needs to invest in a set of Dale or Fry)

Get the Fry, Caius. At least he can speak in a decent English accent, cf.
Dale.

IIRC the Fry version says FORR-t at ss-kyoo" (where @ is a schwa, i.e. the u in
circus). I seem to remember that I've heard "forr-TESS-kyoo" as well.
Possibly in a Dale version? *shudders*

If I remember the lesson I had in "funny names and how to pronounce them" at
school, it *should* be FORR-t at ss-kyoo.

Just an FYI.

--John
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