Pronunciation

[Tom Wall <thomasmwall@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52691

Well, in the interests of throwing 
my own $.02 in, and considering that
I e-mailed a webmaster about the 
pronunciations and she, irritated, 
told me that they came from the 
Scholastic site, I figured I'd throw
in my lot. ;-)

Animagus = 'An-i-MAHG-us'
Animagi = 'An-i-MAJ-aye'

My reasoning on this one was simply because of the Latin - to my 
knowledge, there was no soft 'g' in the Roman phoenetic scheme, but 
then again, 'An-i-MAH-gee' sounds dumb, IMHO, although that's what it 
would be if we were technical with the Latin sounds. Oh, that, and to 
my knowledge, 'mage' is an English conversion that followed the 
Latin, which would have been 'MAH-gus.'


Crucio = 'CRU-see-oh,' 'cause I thought a single 'c' followed by a 
vowel in Latin is definitely a soft sound, i.e. Cicero = 'SIS-er-oh,' 
and not 'Kick-er-oh.' The 'KAI-zar' in Caesar had something to do 
with the double vowels, as far as I can remember.

Accio = 'ACK-ee-oh,' Again, I was thinking of the Latin here - to my 
knowledge, the double-c in Roman phoenetics was a 'k' sound.

Draco = 'DRAY-coh,' but I can see how someone would use the 
longer 'DRAH-coh' there.

Boggart = 'BAWG-art,' with a short 'o,' not like Humphrey. ;-)

Patronus = 'pat-RONE-us,' 'cause the short 'o' there just sounds odd 
to me. 

Sirius = Serious

Lucius = Lu-shuss, which is really just laziness on Lu-see-us, since 
both are really the same thing, right? We're just elliding the sounds 
in the second, with no real changes.

Knuts = 'nuts.' I can see why disagreement would arise here, but I 
see 'nuts' when I see that word, on the reasoning that other words 
with this part have a silent 'k.'

Anyways, just thought I'd throw in.

-Tom