IIRC, yes, but it's pronounced 'weskit' if you're being authenticlike.
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But you don't have to write it like that. . . ever, right?
Because either way, I would think that Sirius, James, and Remus would think it suspicious that Peter becomes a rat.
I thought it was supposed to be a bit foreshadowy for the reader, but at the time the boys wouldn't really think much of it. I think the animals they became (Remus notwithstanding) were very reflective of their personalities.
(Note: this may be a conclusion based more on fanfic than canon.)
IIRC, yes, but it's pronounced 'weskit' if you're being authenticlike.
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IIRC, yes, but it's pronounced 'weskit' if you're being authenticlike.
But you don't have to write it like that. . . ever, right?
Only in American catalogues.
But St. John is pronounced sin-jun, right?
It is, yes. I was at school with a boy called St.John, and he was most startled that I happened to know how to spell it.
...it struck me the other day, on that basis, that Sinclair is presumably a derivation of St Clare.
...it struck me the other day, on that basis, that Sinclair is presumably a derivation of St Clare.
In the second Anne of Green Gables book, there's a little boy named St. Clare. His mother is very insistant on the "proper" pronunciation of their last name, Donnell -- it's Don-NELL, not DON-nell -- and I always wondered whether St. Clare was meant to be pronounced Sinclair, but it's never mentioned in the text.
It is, yes. I was at school with a boy called St.John, and he was most startled that I happened to know how to spell it.
Took me forever to figure out what I was hearing (like DECADES) but when I was in grade school, I used to listen to a Monty Python record where one of the characters is Norman St. John Polevaulter. I couldn't figure out how the name Sinjun was really spelt. Heh.
I think it might have been seeing the movie of SLEUTH, where the name of Olivier's detective in his novels was Lord St. John Merridew.
I don't think I figured out the Sinjun thing until I read a romance novel where the female protagonist insisted on being called Sinjun, and the author spelled it that way.