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You are off to a bad start if -- like untold Harry Potter fans out there -- you confuse Hermine with "Hermione," the talented young witch of Hogwarts fame. Instead, Hermine is a name with a double etymology, stemming from German origins as a feminine form of Hermann and French origins as the word for the small predatory mammal the stoat, or ermin.
According to the National Hurricane Center, the next few names on the list are Igor, Julia and Karl, so the question of pronunciation probably won't return for a while. Fortunately, Surge Desk only needs to spell "Hermine" correctly and is spared having to attempt the various audible approaches of the reporters featured below.
1. CNN chose to emphasize the "I" and went with Her-MEEN:
2. The Associated Press opted for a softer "I," resulting in Her-Meen:
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3. NBC elected to make the "H" silent and wound up with err-Meen:
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4. Eyewitness 9 News of North Carolina chose err-Meen as well:
5. Not Featured: err-MEE-nay
So how do you say it? As noted above, it depends on whether you are deferring to the German or French tongue, but Surge Desk is going with this, as provided by the pronunciation website Forvo.
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