FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Home: FunTrivia Announcements
View Chat Board Rules
Post New
 
Subject: Rowling is now a French knight!

Posted by: collect
Date: Feb 06 09

J/ K. Rowling has just been made a knight in the Legion of Honor in France. She is the second in her family to get the honor -- one of her great-grandfathers was inducted in 1924 for his work in WWI (Rowling, of course, is part French, despite using a French name for You Know Who).

6 replies. On page 1 of 1 pages. 1
pagea star


player avatar
How strange, thanks for that. Was there a big ceremony?

Reply #1. Feb 06 09, 6:14 AM
collect


player avatar
Apparently so -- Rowling spoke in French and apologized for her accent (even though she used to teach it!)

Dave

Reply #2. Feb 08 09, 12:23 PM
CoolTeen
Good. And I didn't know Voldemort was a French name. Tanks for the info.

Reply #3. Feb 09 09, 10:03 AM
AlexxSchneider star


player avatar
Voldemort means "wind of death" in French, and is actually pronounced like "Voldemor" without the sound of the t. I guess they didn't want to confuse fans who hadn't realized this, and thus pronounced it in a more English way instead.

Reply #4. Apr 16 10, 5:41 PM
collect star


player avatar
The British do not pronounce French names the way the French do -- likely because of the Norman French words and names which have been fully Anglicized. "Beauchamps" in French is "Bo shomp" and "Beech um" in English.

Reply #5. Apr 18 10, 6:45 PM
reeshy star
Many names have not been fully anglicized though, and most people would expect them as such to be pronounced as in their mother tongue. I'm studying in Scotland, and while I don't mind my first name being mispronounced (as there is an English version; it's Richard), I correct people on my last name, as there isn't an English version. :)

Reply #6. Apr 21 10, 5:09 PM


6 replies. On page 1 of 1 pages. 1
Legal / Conditions of Use