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![So when I was a kid I [like many other children!] mispronounced Hermione’s name completely.
Being not Irish, not English, and inexperienced with obscure names of the world [JK keeps lists!!] I had no way of knowing that it… anyway I pronounced it “Hermy-own.”
Well, guess how all of Korea pronounces it, sniggering kids of my old middle school.
I tried to correct the students too and they were not having it.
Entire class: “NO, TEACHER. It’s Hermy-own.”
Me: -pointing at the computer screen- “Wrong who is this.”
Entire class: … “Emma Watson.”
On that note, my first semester I made them pick English names for themselves. A pair of best friends decided on “Emma” and “Watson” which was much better than the two other girls at their table who chose “Megan” and “Fox.” It was an interesting lesson in celebrities.
They also really don’t care for Alan Rickman but like Snape, a distinction us fangirls do not make. Man I am just now realizing that I know volumes about Korean high school girls and Harry Potter.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l144vxBoJc1qaxt4go1_400.jpg)
So when I was a kid I [like many other children!] mispronounced Hermione’s name completely.
Being not Irish, not English, and inexperienced with obscure names of the world [JK keeps lists!!] I had no way of knowing that it… anyway I pronounced it “Hermy-own.”
Well, guess how all of Korea pronounces it, sniggering kids of my old middle school.
I tried to correct the students too and they were not having it.
Entire class: “NO, TEACHER. It’s Hermy-own.”
Me: -pointing at the computer screen- “Wrong who is this.”
Entire class: … “Emma Watson.”
On that note, my first semester I made them pick English names for themselves. A pair of best friends decided on “Emma” and “Watson” which was much better than the two other girls at their table who chose “Megan” and “Fox.” It was an interesting lesson in celebrities.
They also really don’t care for Alan Rickman but like Snape, a distinction us fangirls do not make. Man I am just now realizing that I know volumes about Korean high school girls and Harry Potter.
