Wizengamot

[arioth1]

No: HPFGUIDX 74235

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Random <random832 at r...> wrote:

> i'm probably very much alone here, but i pronounce it 
> wih-zen'-gah-MOH... sort of bastardized american french, here. i'd 
> always read the ending 't' as meaning a long vowel.


That's how I was pronouncing it too (damn high school french class)
until I did some research.  I am assuming the word is derived from 
witenagamot meaning a meeting of councelors which is pronounced 
wit'n-ah-gah-mote.  Then wizengamot would be wiz'n-gah-mote--a 
council of wizards!

Arioth