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[Jim Ferer]

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Laura Peregrine::It's with the second that I'm asking for help. I
thought it would be  interesting to add some statistics to the talk
about just how big a job  Jim Dale had reading the 5 books, so I've
added up the total time, and  am working my way through all the books
counting all the separate  voices (so far 221). Does anyone know the
word count for the books?"

Sorcerer's Stone was about 77,000 words; Chamber of Secrets, about
85,000; Prisoner of Azkaban, 104,000 words; Goblet of Fire was 191,000
words and Order of the Phoenix 255,000 words, rounded of course. These
numbers are subject to correction except for Goblet and OOP, which
were publisher's announced numbers.  

It's been said around that Book 6 is not going to continue the trend
of ever-increasing length.  

There was an interview with Jim Dale about recording OOP.  IIRC, the
recording took about ten days to two weeks, which is pretty good IMO
for 23 CD's of audio.  One of the many differences between me and an
actor is I would have lost my voice completely after about the second day.

Jim Ferer
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lynn Eddy <lyyved at e...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing to ask a favor (actually 2 favors). I'm one of the 
> presenters at Convention Alley in Ottawa this summer. I'm leading a 
> small group discussion on Health and Healthcare in the Wizarding World 
> and doing a formal presentation titled The Artistry of Jim Dale: The 
> American Audio Version of the Harry Potter Novels.
> 
> It's with the second that I'm asking for help. I thought it would be 
> interesting to add some statistics to the talk about just how big a job 
> Jim Dale had reading the 5 books, so I've added up the total time, and 
> am working my way through all the books counting all the separate 
> voices (so far 221). Does anyone know the word count for the books? 
> I've tried a search on Google with widely varying counts listed only 
> for the last two books. I've checked with Steve from the Harry Potter 
> Lexicon and he didn't know either. I can always scan all of them (if I 
> can ever get my scanner to work right) but if someone already has the 
> information (or can get it easily), that would be great!
> 
> The second thing I would like to know is the accents that Dale has 
> used. I'm not from Britain, and though I've asked a British born friend 
> and fellow Harry Potter friend,  she's been in the US so long she isn't 
> very sure how helpful she will be.
> 
> I know from written sources that Hagrid "comes from" Devon and all the 
> centaurs have Welsh accents in Dale's version; McGonagall has a 
> Scottish accent and Seamus Finnigan  an Irish one (though if someone 
> can get more specific that would be great.
> 
> Please email privately at lyyved at e...
> 
> Thanks for your patience with this long and OT message and special 
> thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
> 
> Laura Peregrine
> (known in real life as Lynn Eddy)