If I had a daughter named Hermione I'd insist upon "Her-mee-AW-nay", and not the very ugly modern US/UK pronunciation.

I expect that's why I know better than to ever give a daughter that name, even though it's so gorgeous. Ἑρμιόνη, daughter of Helen and Menelaus, abandoned, according in Sappho's non-nonsense phrasing, by Helen who had found τό κάλλιστον, what she best loved, elsewhere. A gorgeous name that evokes both utter beauty and utter despair of abandonment. And not one to be pronounced in such an dreadfully unmusical manner.

See also: "Notes on my Sappho translation"