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Author: calmestofdoves

May 28th 2015 at 11:17:46 PM

Got rid of the "folder" syntax as this is still a YKTTW, not a full-fledged trope page; cleaned up the [=DeGroot=]s; indented the Ender sequel example; made various other formatting edits; and added the ''Series/StargateSG1'' example.

I have an example that's a bit YMMV...
*In ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'', the main character's name is Lyra. This American troper spent three whole books assuming that "Lyra" rhymed with "Kira": ''leer-uh''. It wasn't until ''Literature/TheAmberSpyglass'', when a flock of harpies calls Lyra out in a lie by screaming "LIAR! LIAR! LIAR" over and over "until Lyra and Liar seemed one and the same" that it became clear "Lyra" was pronounced like "Liar": ''lie-ruh''.

I don't know if reading "Lyra" as "Lira" was a pervasive issue or if that was just my own idiosyncratic interpretation that my brain latched onto at the tender age of eleven when I first read ''Literature/TheGoldenCompass'', but I would never have figured out what I was doing wrong if not for the InUniversePronunciationGuide provided by the Lyra/Liar thing, so I'm tempted to include it regardless.

ETA: Also, holy shit, this is from over two years ago? What??