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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Someone was telling me about Hermy-own in Harry Potter, and it took me a minute to realize it was Hermione.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are two main groups, those who learned their foundational language mainly orally, and those who mainly learned by reading. Those who were readers would read Hermy-own or Hermy-onn because that would match how other similar spellings are pronounced. I was an ambitious reader very early on, so my pronounciations tend to follow spelling rules rather than actual practice

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

For what it's worth, her name is pronounced differently in different languages. Whereas it's "her-my-nee" in English, it's "Hermine" (long i + schwa-sound for the e at the end) in German and "Гермиона" (Germiona) in Russian

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's "Her-my-uh-nee" in English.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Depends on if you had a Greek class with Persephone explained also

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's not pursey phone?

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