JK Rowling gently scolded Harry Potter fans today, telling them off for mispronouncing the name of his nemesis, Lord Voldemort.
While most of us – and most of the characters in the film, in our defence – say the dark lord’s name with a hard ‘T’ sound at the end, Rowling had other plans when she created him.
The menacing moniker should have been pronounced with a silent ‘T’, like the French word for death, ‘mort’, when talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-But-This-Is-A-Blog-Post-About-His-Name-Dammit.
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