Pronunciations?

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I think there was a topic like this a while ago, but I figured since there are new people, and since we're all doing the read aloud thing, it might be fun to bring up again.

So, how do you pronounce certain words and names in the books? And maybe you could tell where you live as well, because accents might play into it. It think it would be interesting to see all the different ways that people pronounce things.

Eugenides: yoo-jen-EYE-dees
Magus: MAY-jus
Attolia: ah-TOLL-ee-ah
Eddis: EE-dis
Sounis: SOO-nis
Nahuseresh: na-HOO-ser-esh

And more that I can't think of, I'm sure.

Comments

[rowana.livejournal.com]

West London. :) I live in Suburbia. You're right on the Coast, wow. How did you run into Megan Whalen Turner's books? I found it through W H Smith, they had a copy of 'The Thief'.

[allthingevil123.livejournal.com]

ummm well one of my friends one day sent me a text calling me gen as she decided i was like eugenides and so one of my nicknames should be gen....slightly worried about what the hell she was talking about she explained he was a character in a book she had read, so i borried it off her and things just went from there.

even more worrying though she decided she was irene as when given the choice between being good or pretty she choose to be the queen of attolia....
we then discovered the second book ^^;

[rowana.livejournal.com]

even more worrying though she decided she was irene as when given the choice between being good or pretty she choose to be the queen of attolia....
we then discovered the second book ^^;

:D Wow, I guess that must have made things a little awkward. That's a nice way to discover the books, I think, through a friend.

[allthingevil123.livejournal.com]

yeah, it was funny when we found out, we just ignore the second book and pretend it never happened :-) well we don't ignore it entirely...
but we don't actually pretend to be the characters and my friends persistantly come up with new names for me
it was nice having a friend to talk to though about the books, i'm suprised she hasn't joined this site though...