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02-25-2008, 06:06 AM
That http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://tlatoani.livejournal.com/profile)tlatoani (http://tlatoani.livejournal.com/)! First he wants a University T-shirt; (http://minami-neko.livejournal.com/199003.html) now he wants to know how to pronounce things. Geez. But he's not the only one. So here ya go:
"St Vier" is "Saint VEER" (pretty American-sounding, really; not even "sin" for "saint" the way all Yankee girls grow up to be horrified the first time someone tells them how to actually pronounce Jane Eyre's near-miss, Mr. Rivers... but then, if you haven't noticed - or haven't heard me read - the Riverside District accent is very American - must be the Damon Runyon influence), though the Duchess Tremontaine's first name, Diane, is, for some weird reason of my brain, pronounced as if it were French: "dee-AHNN."
You may, of course, ignore all this if you like. I know what it is to fall in love with a sound and claim it as your own despite all assurances that it really isn't "a-fro-DYE-tee," dear.
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"St Vier" is "Saint VEER" (pretty American-sounding, really; not even "sin" for "saint" the way all Yankee girls grow up to be horrified the first time someone tells them how to actually pronounce Jane Eyre's near-miss, Mr. Rivers... but then, if you haven't noticed - or haven't heard me read - the Riverside District accent is very American - must be the Damon Runyon influence), though the Duchess Tremontaine's first name, Diane, is, for some weird reason of my brain, pronounced as if it were French: "dee-AHNN."
You may, of course, ignore all this if you like. I know what it is to fall in love with a sound and claim it as your own despite all assurances that it really isn't "a-fro-DYE-tee," dear.
(Original Post) (http://ellen-kushner.livejournal.com/159721.html)