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Quiz: Can you say the 10 most commonly mispronounced character names from books correctly?

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Viktor Krum isn’t the only one confused by Hermione’s name

J.K. Rowling recently revealed that Voldemort is not pronounced how everyone thinks it is (you’ll have to take the quiz to find out the real pronunciation – if you dare to speak the Dark Lord’s name out loud, that is).

According to audio book company Audible, that’s not the only literary name baffling readers.

They surveyed 2,000 people to find out the top ten most commonly mispronounced characters in the world of literature.

Even the biggest bibliophiles admitted they wouldn’t make the best narrators when it came to pronouncing Don Quixote.

Think you can correctly say the 10 most commonly mispronounced names?

Take our quiz to find out.

 

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