Pronunciation

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No: HPFGUIDX 52561

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> Something Kathryn said earlier about Gillyweed has prompted me to 
ask a 
> question I've been wondering about for a while.
> 
> I had a conversation about this in another forum some time ago, and 
was 
> surprised to learn that different people pronounce "Animagus" in 
different 
> ways.
> (the divide was mainly along European/North American lines, further 
> sub-divided by those who have and haven't heard either audiobook 
version of 
> PoA).
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, there is only one possible valid 
pronunciation, so 
> I wondered what HPFGUers thought.
> 
> So, is it Ani(MAH)gus, Ani(MAY)gus, An(EYE)(MAY)gus, or something 
else?
> (in the absence of the phonetic alphabet, I hope the above choices 
make sense)
> 
> --
> GulPlum AKA Richard, who has deliberately not stated his own 
preference.
> Yet. :-)
  

 I have always pronounced it ani MAA jus....The double a sound as 
 in 
 a sheep says baa...and I have pronouncced the plural as ani MAA 
 ji...As in "The Gift of the Magi"
 
 I might be wrong but with nothing to go on but my own instinct and 
 word pronunciation..this is what I have come up with.
 
 And as for the website of pronunciations from scholastic..I don't 
agree with the way they say knuts..I always imagined it as NUTS..not 
kahnoots. They say nuts on the PS/SS dvd...But maybe it is because I 
am American..

 Amanda
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