Pronunciation

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 21/02/2003 02:06:53 Eastern Standard Time, 
crookshanks731 at sbcglobal.net writes:
As for Accio..I say AK-see-o..All the websites I have visited say it 
> is ah-see-oh....I don't like that way...lol

Me:

Wow, we have a lot of pronunciations on that one
AH-see-oh
AHK-see-oh
AK-see-oh
AA-see-oh

And I'm about to add another...I say [AH-chee-oh].  It know a few people with 
Italian names containing double "c'"s and the double "c" is always pronounced 
like "ch."  I assume that it would be pronounced the same in Latin, since 
Italian and Latin are so close.

In a message dated 20/02/2003 21:30:41 Eastern Standard Time, 
alician at bigpond.com writes:
> I say it "noots", but I wasn't really surprised when I 
> heard "kanoots". I can't think of any current English words beginning 
> with "kn" where the k is pronounced, but originally they all were. 
> From Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue" (p87, paperback): "The "k" in 
> words like "knight" and "knave" was still sounded in Shakespeare's 
> day...".

Me:

Did they pronounce the "g" too?  KAH-NIG-ITS!!  hehe, I'm sure all of us 
dorks got that.  I still can't fathom it.  "Knuts"="Kah-NOOTS"?   I really 
hope they don't say it that way in the movie.  And where is everyone getting 
the long "u" sound like in "newts"?  If it was "knutes," then I could see the 
long "u," but it's [NUTS], no silent "e" at the end.

Audra


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