{"id":127941,"date":"2015-09-10T16:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T22:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/he-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken-correctly.html"},"modified":"2015-09-11T19:19:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T01:19:51","slug":"he-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/he-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken-correctly.html","title":{"rendered":"He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken (Correctly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here&#39;s something to throw into the next nerdly conversation you&#39;re having to create a bit of geek-raging controversy: J. K. Rowling confirms that the name of her main baddy in the Harry Potter books &#8212; <i>Voldemort<\/i> &#8212; is pronounced with the &quot;t&quot; silent, as the French might (and, in fact, apparently do).<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, the movies pronounced it with an audible &quot;t&quot; at the end, which established that version as what most folk use, changing even how the audiobooks were being recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/XAdGg\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/XAdGg<\/a> .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/09\/10\/j-k-rowling-voldemort\/#Fo2.WAzZ0sk5'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/EFC6bPJ1sqLvT87svtqYv8AYuzR3esZCEa9HoT74obsShxhA81h7pGZkFbdoxLkSlZASut4S7vmaAcdjlUqVuJXmISDd44TSANQY5lbEE8ofzqP7tqF8pFV6-O-B_P_IXZZF4zw9f1oblp91hFdd86VZdXz__0dOfxHPmZhbUjmZWziKhOxP6b5IMQXzhgaEHv-XIKXFJTkr3o5VEqmU7gwVAHkGdkcl7uEI_VmRSEM=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/09\/10\/j-k-rowling-voldemort\/#Fo2.WAzZ0sk5'>J.K. Rowling says we&#8217;ve been pronouncing Voldemort&#8217;s name wrong<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nJ.K. Rowling has revealed on Twitter that she pronounces &#8220;Voldemort&#8221; differently to most of us.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/CAm65ZqPDXu'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here&#39;s something to throw into the next nerdly conversation you&#39;re having to create a bit of geek-raging controversy: J. K. Rowling confirms that the name of her main baddy in the Harry Potter books &#8212; Voldemort &#8212; is pronounced with the &quot;t&quot; silent, as the French might (and, in fact, apparently do). For whatever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/he-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken-correctly.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken (Correctly)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,527,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-harry-potter","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137041,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/twenty-years-in-the-us-of-harry-potter.html","url_meta":{"origin":127941,"position":0},"title":"Twenty Years (in the US) of Harry Potter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Sep-18 12:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yet more proof that I am getting old. 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