[HPforGrownups] pronunciation

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 44448


>
>Me:
>Ok, in my defense, I have always been terrible at pronouncing words
>correctly.  When I first read "Snape", I heard *snap* in my head, and
>he has been *Snap* ever since.  So when I read "Sirius", I head
>*cirrus* in my head.  Last weekend I was telling my mom the discussing
>this group was having over Sirius, and she laughed at the way I
>pronouced Sirius and that I confused the two words.  Sadly, it never
>dawned on me that the word for the clouds was spelled cirrus not
>sirius.  I can memorize thousands of pages of history and Harry
>Potter, but be expected to remember words' spelling...impossible.  I
>sit here now with a unabridged dictionary within arms distance.
>
Hey, I understand completely.

>  But the point I do want to make is...how am I suppost to pronounce
>Sirius, or rather, how do ya'll pronouce Sirius?  With my Texas
>southern accent, I pronouce it as sear-us.  Like the clouds.  Am I
>"suppost" to pronounce it ser-e-us to be properly British?
>
>Oh, and also, the sweet lady part above.  It makes me sound so old.
>Gee, that dear, old, confused lady who can't keep her words straight.
>  Sorry, but I'm only 25, and I do mean well.   :)
>
Absolutely no insult is intended.  :-)  I read a lot of Jane Austen, and 
also I'm an SCA member (and that's a huge OT discussion which I simply will 
not enter into here), and "lady" is a very polite way to refer to a female.  
To me, either "woman" or "girl" would sound really insulting to write in a 
public forum, and I simply won't do that.  :-)

As far as canon support - the pronunciation for "Sirius" comes of astronomy 
classes ("seer-ee-us") and of course is amendable to local dialect.  :-)  
They take astronomy at Hogwarts, so there's your tenuous canonical link.  
Likewise, "cirrus" is out of my climatology classes, both at the esteemed 
University of Washington, my alma mater.  :-)

Felinia,
a 42-year-old sweet yet formidable lady

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