• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    20 days 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

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      20 days 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

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      20 days ago

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