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Then you just end up pronouncing things wrong. How many American children grew up reading Harry Potter pronouncing Hermione as "Hermi-Own" until the movies cam

• reaperducer 6y ago
  Then you just end up pronouncing things wrong. No, then you get used to applying the pronunciations of word fragments from one word to another. Reading doesn't make you pronounce things wrong. Not reading does. It's why so many people on YouTube embarrass themselves by confidently getting certain words hilariously wrong. How many American children grew up reading Harry Potter pronouncing Hermione as "Hermi-Own" until the movies came out? Is this common? I can't say that I know a lot of children, but the ones I do know had no problem with it. I know because one named a stuffed animal after her, and another asked her mother if she could change her own name to Herminoe.