Potter pronunciation

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 160847

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Katherine Coble <k.coble at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> While we're on the topic of pronunciation, would someone kindly  
> enlighten me as to the correct pronunciation of Rufus Scrimgeour?
> 
> Not the "Rufus" part.  That I get.  It's the "Scrimgeour" part I'm  
> stuck on.   I read it alternately as "Skrimjhur" or "Skrimgower".   
> Which, if either, is correct?
> 
> Thanks,
> Katherine

FWIW, Jim Dale in the American audiobooks reads it "Skrimjhur," and so
would I. The presence of other vowels immediately after the "g" in an
unstressed syllable makes it so, I think, but I can't find a cite for
that just now.

Jim Ferer, who is annoyed every time he hears the "t" in Voldemort.