Lisa Shearin is helping all her readers out by posting a compendium of pronunciations for the Names, Places and random Words in her Raine Benares novels. It was compiled by Lisa and the audio book reader (voice-over actress) for her first several novels.
I was pronouncing Tamnais wrong. Way wrong. 'tam-NAY-is' was my interpretation. Apparently it's 'tom-NAHS'. So does that mean when they shorted it to Tam, it's not pronounced Tam but Tom? I like Tam better. ANYhoo, it was cool to see the list and compare.
LOL!!! I know exactly what you mean! No lie, when I was reading the Harry Potter books (and I get teased about this to this day), I always pronounced Hermione as Herm-EE-own. I'd never heard or known that Hermione is a common British (I think?) name. All that time, I was thinking "man, whata an ugly name for such a cute sounding girl". Oh well, good to know others struggle as well.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree, I like "Tam" better.
OMG-('O my Golly' for some of us) Did you say Lisa Shearin is on audio - you KNOW how I love audio - I can't wait to get my puter back to dl her files. I can hear Mychael speak while I sew - the thought just makes me drool - oooh - I hope she has a good reader - I wonder if they'll have a genderized team - man - I can't wait!!!
ReplyDeleteWho cares about Tam/Tom - go for the guy who actually acts on his impulses!