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How do you pronounce scrimgeour?

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Cinderbelly · 14/03/2019 08:43

I am currently reading the last Harry Potter book and this is really bugging me.

I struggled with hermione until I watched the first film (in my head I was reading it as her-me-on-ee) but every time I see the new minister for Magic's name my head reads it differently!
S-crime-gor?
Scrim-ee-gour? (Our like tour and like hour)
Scrim-ger? Both with a hard and soft g!

Please help I am a professional woman in my late thirties and this is driving me nuts!

OP posts:
Haveacupofcoffee · 14/03/2019 08:44

I’ve always said something like scrim-jaw in my head

justmyview · 14/03/2019 08:45

scrimjer

ClaraMatilda · 14/03/2019 08:46

Scrim-jor, with the second syllable as in George.

LadyRochfordsSpangledGusset · 14/03/2019 08:49

Scrim-Jurh :) With Jur said like the Jura mountains...

Singlenotsingle · 14/03/2019 08:51

Scrim-i-jer

YessicaHaircut · 14/03/2019 08:54

Not sure how it’s supposed to be pronounced but in my head it’s scrim-jaw.

Astrid0208 · 14/03/2019 08:54

Scrim jower, to rhyme with shower. Hopefully someone who paid attention to the films will come along soon!

BeGoodTanya · 14/03/2019 08:57

SCRIM-jor for me.

The pronunciation that I seem to alter every time I say it in HP6 (reading it aloud currently to my six year old, who is getting bored ‘with all the kissing’) is Felix Felicis. My Latin is scant, and I’m not sure where the emphasis in ‘felicis’ goes. FEL-ic-is? Fel-IC-is?

kaytee87 · 14/03/2019 08:59

Scrim jower

^ this too

Singlenotsingle · 14/03/2019 09:08

Feleesis. I did Latin but it was a long time ago.

YerAWizardHarry · 14/03/2019 09:11

Audiobooks say SCRIM-jer

PodgeBod · 14/03/2019 09:12

Scrim-gow-er which is probably really wrong. I also couldnt pronounce Hermione until Krum sounded it out Grin

Eliza9917 · 14/03/2019 09:13

Scrim-gee-orr

IWantChocolates · 14/03/2019 09:17

Scrim-jer.

And felix fell-ee-sis.

blackteasplease · 14/03/2019 09:22

I always pronounced it scrim-jaw in my head. But then the films had it s scrim-jer so I guess I had it wrong

But I used to pronounce Draco as Draco rather than drake-o like in the films so what do I know?

TheGirlWithAllTheFeathers · 14/03/2019 09:23

Scrim-i-jer
I'm east coast Scottish

LeekMunchingSheepShagger · 14/03/2019 09:23

Scrim-jer

amusedbush · 14/03/2019 09:23

SCRIM-juhr. I'm Scottish.

amusedbush · 14/03/2019 09:25

I also couldnt pronounce Hermione until Krum sounded it out

That's why JK Rowling put that part in the book. Apparently people were calling her Hermy-own!

wafflyversatile · 14/03/2019 09:28

My old teacher was scrimjer.

FrancisCrawford · 14/03/2019 09:29

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fussychica · 14/03/2019 09:30

When the books first came out DS was at primary school and came home to say his teacher was talking about Hermy owne and he had to correct her Shock Bet that went down wellGrin

MinesaPinot · 14/03/2019 09:32

Scrim-jer

DH always refers to Hermione as Hermy-own, and has done since he read the first book.

Rumbletum2 · 14/03/2019 09:32

I’m sure I saw a “making of” video somewhere in which Daniel Radcliffe and the other younger cast members were discussing this and they were saying Scrimjer.

widgetbeana · 14/03/2019 09:37

Scrim - jer.

Feee licks Fee lee sis

That's how the audiobooks pronounce it.