Question about Pronunciation

[lavender]

 

[KillerMuffin]

The first is correct.

It's not a regional thing, it's an education thing. Persephone is greek.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[lavender]

 

[Purple Haze]

There is a poster named Persphone.

I couldn't find anyone named Persphone, but I did find a member with the username Persephone and Persophone36. I don't know what a persephone is, but I venture to guess that it's pronounced PER-SUH-FONE.

It sounds like a phone-sex device...

 

[lavender]

 

[KillerMuffin]

She's an interesting person, actually. How many people would like to married to Hades, Lord of the Dead?

 

[Purple Haze]

Yeah, I figured so, but it does fuck with the pronunciation a little,

I think I'll go jack off with my persephone.

 

[Texan]

more than anyone wanted to know

the first listing from a google search:


In Greek mythology, daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She was gathering flowers when she was seized by Hades, who carried her off to the underworld to make her his wife. On learning of the abduction, Demeter was so distraught that she allowed barrenness and famine to spread over the earth. Zeus commanded Hades to allow Persephone to return to her mother, but because she had eaten some (or, in some versions, just one) pomegranate seeds in the underworld, she had to remain one-third of the year with Hades, spending the other two-thirds with Demeter. This myth accounts for the change of the seasons and the annual cycle of growth and decay

 

[lavender]

 

[Mistress]

The first is correct.

It's not a regional thing, it's an education thing. Persephone is greek.

Yep.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, but all British people pronounce buoy with one syllable. Although half of all Britons now pronounce "schedule" with a hard C, it seems boo-ee is one Americanism we shan't adopt. Ho ho ho.

 

[lavender]

 

[phrodeau]

Ah, but is Zeus pronounced "Zee-us" or "Zoose"? The former is common in Britain, the latter in the US.

 

[lavender]

 

[Dillinger]

She's very cool. And I had been mispronouncing her name - she corrected me on it when we met.

I'm not sure it is an education thing KM - I'm well versed in Mythology but from reading, not from taking classes - there weren't any pronunciation guides in the mythology books I read as a kid so even though, as an adult, I probably now logically knew what the correct pronunciation should have been, lifelong habit had me saying it wrong anyway.

 

[Spinaroonie]

I've been meaning to ask this for awhile on the board. There is a poster named Persphone. I have always pronounced this:

Per-se-phuh-nee

But, I have heard two people say:

Per-se-phone (as in telephone)

What gives? Is this just a regional thing? What is the correct pronunciation?

You've heard two texans, Lavy.

 

[lavender]

Re: Re: Question about Pronunciation

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

This is all about me, isn't it?

 

[naudiz]

I would have thought the first as well. But this gets me to thinking about naudiz.

I pronounce her name "naw-dees". IS that correct?

Yep.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

I'd pronounce it

Per-spon-ed

 

[Problem Child]

I just want to point out my name is pronounced

Proh-blemchile-duh.

Any of you that have been provouncing it any other way are idjits.

 

[peachykeen]

many have asked me for phone sex, but never Perse-phone sex...

 

[Harbinger]

And it's not pronounced "Har- BING-er", it's "HAR-binge-er". That's "binge", as in drinking a large amount of alcohol.









A very, very large amount.