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[darchildre]

I have been listening to the audiobook of The Nine Tailors while knitting recently (because sometimes, I want to listen to something and don't have enough brain for Dante) and, okay, it is a quite good audiobook. I have one small thing I want to complain about, but also it is a British audiobook and so possibly, this is another dialectical divide thing, like the time I complained about the pronunciation of Irene Adler's name in the BBC radio series and was later told that "Eye-reen-ee" is a perfectly normal way to say that in England.*

Anyway. The Latin word "jubilate" comes up several times over the course of The Nine Tailors and every single time the narrator, who is quite good in all other respects, insists on pronouncing it with a 'j' sound. It grates on me horribly because I have been a choral singer all my life and have sung the word "jubilate" more times than I can count. As far as I know, there is no 'j' sound in that word (or, y'know, in Latin - I mean, the sound probably exists but not as that letter**).

Is pronouncing it with a 'j' sound a thing they do in England or can I feel justified in yelling at the narrator every time?



*I maintain that I am still correct about this, as Irene Adler is herself an American.

**I mean, the letter 'j' is super young comparatively, right?

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[darchildre]

It's part of a longer Latin phrase inscribed on a bell, in the book. (The bell is named Jubilee, which may have led to the confusion on the reader's part, as to my only moderately educated ear, he handles the rest of the Latin just fine.)

I'm glad to know that I am justified in my annoyance at his getting pronunciation wrong.