[HPforGrownups] Re: Potter pronunciation

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 160942

On 11/2/06, Jim Ferer <jferer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

actually - it's the fact that it's followed by "i" or "e" in particular

...though technically that also applies to 'c' as 's', and i've been
convinced of the 'akkio' pronunciation - but, then, scrimgeour isn't
latin.

i'll weigh in on other stuff so the post isn't wasted.

I think that trying to make "sound-it-out" versions and capitalizing
for stress is really not the best way - does anyone else here know
ASCII IPA? http://alt-usage-english.org/ascii_ipa_choice.html - I
think that's a good resource for a "common basis" for pronunciation
discussions.

Anyway, "sirius" isn't an unknown word, it is the name of a star. An
actual dictionary gives "serious" as /'siri:@s/ and "sirius" as
/'sIr'i:@s/ - that is, "sirius" has a slightly shorter "i"
(traditionally represented by i with breve, "serious" has one
traditionally represented by i with circumflex) sound for the first
syllable

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