[HPforGrownups] Pronunciation of Fortescue

[Muridae]

No: HPFGUIDX 35135


John Walton wrote:

>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.

Although Jim Dale *ought* to be able to do a passable English accent,
since he originally hails from Northamptonshire. I know, because my father was in the same year as him at Kettering Grammar School.

Perhaps he's been in the US so long now that he's forgotten? He wouldn't be the first...

>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.

That's certainly how I'd pronounce it.

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Muridae