saying Ginevra

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 99045

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lady Macbeth" 
<LadyMacbeth at u...> wrote:

Ginger: 
>   Filking minds need to know:  How do you pronounce Ginevra?  Is it 
Gin-
>   EV-ra or Gin-EEV-ra or GIN-ev-ra? Or something else I haven't
>   mentioned?  Heck, it was some hour in the midst of the night when 
I
>   saw the site and thought it was Ginerva.

Lady Macbeth:
> 
>   Good question - I've been mentally using short vowels and 
emphasizing the
> middle syllable...but that's probably the American in me.  ^_^;  
And don't
> feel bad...for whatever reason I keep seeing it as "Ginerva" too. 

Geoff:
Because you are posibly thinking of Minerva?

I find myself favouring Gin-EV-ra. But, on the other hand, I prefer 
to think of her still as Ginny - rather as I prefer my own name in 
its shortened form.

Although Jo Rowling has said that is her full name, it doesn't really 
grab me. But I suppose, as a mere male, I shouldn't go around 
grabbing young ladies called Ginevra.... <sigh>
:-)