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I remember listening to a book on Librivox where the reader came across the British spelling of drafty (draughty) and pronounced it draw-ty.
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06-08-2017, 01:43 AM | #63 |
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One of the most annoying Librivox fluffs I ever heard --- A collection of short stories.
And at the start of every story, the narrator informs us the author is "Guy (rhyme with eye) Maussapant." I wonder if he is spinning in his grave. Librivox has a policy not to inform narrators of mispronunciations, but I would think that the correct *author's name* is a pretty vital part of the book! |
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That's a very silly policy, to my mind. How can narrators know that they're mispronouncing something, and correct the problem, if nobody tells them?
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They don't want their volunteers' feelings hurt; it might drive them away never to return to read aloud again. It is even in the "proof-listener" instructions, that the listener can pretty much only criticize for a re-do things like *extreme* back-ground noise and totally garbled and unintelligible reading. (Unless the reader *asks* for critique of pronunciation.)
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Not being English, how should you pronounce that name then? (I always pronounce it like that in my head...) I'm talking about the first name...
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Given that he was a French writer, I'm pretty sure he would pronounce his first name "gee" to rhyme with "see", with a hard "g". |
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Listening to an audiobook today with a main character "Valentin". The character is supposed to be Russian.
Not being Russian, I can't say for sure, but I'm expecting this to be read as "VAL-en-tin". The narrator is saying "Val-IN-tin" - which is jarring enough to me, given I'm expecting the other - but about 80% of the time, she's actually saying "Val-IN-tee-in" (as if it were spelled Valentian, not Valentin". It's driving me a little bit crazy. ETA: Oh, and there's a character "Anastasia" - and she's pronouncing it "Ah-na-sta-SEE-ya". Last edited by FizzyWater; 06-15-2017 at 08:55 PM. |
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Right now, I'm listening to Grace Conlin read Wharton's The Custom of the Country. She pronounces "coronet" as "coronay" and "egregious" with two hard g's.
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@issybird As you have an eye (ear) for mispronunciations, and I don't want any in my recordings of my stories, how would you recommend I pronounce ancillary? Not being sure which of the three I could think of might be right, I just chose one and hoped for the best.
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