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Someone was telling me about Hermy-own in Harry Potter, and it took me a minute to realize it was Hermione.
There are two main groups, those who learned their foundational language mainly orally, and those who mainly learned by reading. Those who were readers would read Hermy-own or Hermy-onn because that would match how other similar spellings are pronounced. I was an ambitious reader very early on, so my pronounciations tend to follow spelling rules rather than actual practice
For what it's worth, her name is pronounced differently in different languages. Whereas it's "her-my-nee" in English, it's "Hermine" (long i + schwa-sound for the e at the end) in German and "Гермиона" (Germiona) in Russian
It's "Her-my-uh-nee" in English.
Depends on if you had a Greek class with Persephone explained also
It's not pursey phone?
Hermy-one
Hermi wan Kenerbi, yer me ernly herp!
I knew a girl who was raised in a small town in the middle of nowhere, without TV or movies, but she read a lot. She had so many things like that. Yosemite rhymed with hose-mite.
I know Yosemite, from Yosemite Sam cartoons :)
That was actually the context of when she said it - she read the bugs bunny comic books (which I didn't know existed) and said that character's name.
My family has Swedish relatives that pronounced it "Yohss-meet."