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Originally Posted by Keslynn
I read somewhere that for the audiobooks of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, the author worked closely with the narrators to ensure that character and place names were pronounced properly. I read most of the series in paper and then listened to one in audio. Turns out I'd been pronouncing a few things wrong in my head as I read.
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I know when Audible Studios first started doing the Liaden series they set up time for the authors and narrators to have conversations like this.
Sometimes it works out wrong though. David Weber actually gave Allyson Johnson the wrong pronunciation for Manticoran in his Honor Harrington series.
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People, it turns out that the wrong pronunciation of Manticore in the audio books is my fault.
I have no idea how I came to do it, but when Allyson set out to do the first books, she sent me a long list of words for which she wanted me to give her the correct pronunciation, and "Manticore" was on the list. Frankly, I don't remember specifically addressing the point, but she sent me a copy of my original e-mail to her and, yup, I did. She asked it it was properly "Man-ti-CORE-an" or "Man-TIK-eran," and I (for some reason) told her it was the second.
It's wrong, but it's not her fault or Audible's. It was a simple miss communication, and I have no idea how I managed to do it since I have never pronounced it aby other way than the first of her suggestions. There were a lot of words on her list, and the only thing I can think of is that for some reason while dealing with all of them, I somehow managed to flip this one. She did her conscientious best to get it right, and I managed to tell her wrong.
Sigh.
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