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[madbaker]

I've been listening to a 2022 BBC podcast production of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising. It is not an audiobook, but a direct adaptation to podcast/radio. Unlike the film which shall not be named (whose only positive point was giving the author Hollywood money) this is incredibly faithful to the book. The episodes are short (about 20 minutes each) and I'm enjoying it.

However: the most recent episode I listened to apparently brought up another awry* issue.
The main character reads a book to teach him magic - called the "Book of Gramarye". The podcast reads it as "grammar-ee", which makes total sense. But as a young child reading this book, I internalized it as "gra-MAR-yee" and that will never leave my head.

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*As a young child getting most of my vocabulary from reading, I thought the word was pronounced "aw-ree" and didn't find out differently until high school. "a-RYE" still sounds wrong to me.

Comments

[acanthusleaf]

My 'awry' word is antimony. I think it sounds much better as anTIMony. Which is how I read it in my head.

I also thought from your title about the various forms of English where I think they put the emphASis on the wrong sylLABle. :-)

[madbaker]

I also use "anTIMony", and thought that was correct until now.