[HPforGrownups] Revisited: Pronunciation -Olympe Maxime

[Morgan D.]

No: HPFGUIDX 53735

>    From: "Steve" <bboy_mn at yahoo.com>
> 
> Back to the pronunciation thread.
> 
> How do YOU pronounce - Olympe Maxime?

This is terribly hard to explain, because as fair as I know this sound
doesn't exist in English. The "ym" sound is the sound of a nasal vowel,
the same sound of French words "pain" or "sein", if you speak a bit of
French. So it's something like "oh-lan-p" -- the "an" is, I think, like
in the word "and" in English, but it's actually a single phoneme, a
sort of nasal "ae".

*shakes head* Yeah, I know it didn't make much sense. On the other
hand, Maxime is pretty simple: "mack-seem". 
(If the above info is wrong, blame the Larousse dictionary, I'm just
reporting what is says.)

> I've always found French pronunciations to be a little odd. How
> 'bourgeoisie' (bore-geo-issy) ever became boo-zhwa-zee, I will never
> understand. But then, that's French.

I'll refrain from commenting how odd English pronunciation is for me,
with words like "rough", "though", "through" and "thought" having
completely different pronunciations... ^__^

Morgan D.
Hogwarts Letters - http://www.hogwartsletters.hpg.com.br

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