[HPforGrownups] Re: Pronunciation

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 53086


>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.
>
I also pronounce it "AH-cheeoh":  during the Middle Ages, Latin was starting 
to elide into Italian (which was actually a bunch of regional dialects and 
didn't become anything like standard until the mid-19th century), and my 
choir director in church choir taught us to pronounce the medievally-written 
carols with these sorts of pronunciations.

Since Hogwarts dates from about the time of the early Middle Ages, I'm going 
with a more medieval scholars' Latin than Classical Roman Latin.

Felinia


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