The Poll about pronouncing "Voldemort"

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 29026

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pteripet at y... wrote:
> The argument is whether it is voldemore or voldemort.  In French it 
> would be Voldemore but would not have the same effect as saying the 
> T.  VOLDEMORT.  JK Rowling pronounces it Voldemort.  It means evil 
> this in latin.

Voldemort with the "t" pronounced would mess up the rhyme scheme on 
half of my filks - e.g.,

Just call me Voldemort
In my anti-Harry war
I've made use of tactics
At moments climatic
Which in hindsight I deplore

If there's one thing I've learned in my brief career as a filk-
writer, it's that there are far more rhymes for "more" than "mort" in 
the English language.

Are you sure about your Latin derivation? My Latin dictionary gives 
as synonyms of evil "malus" "pravus" "improbus", and an evil-doer 
as "maleficus". While "Mort" in Latin is "Death", there's no ready 
equivalent of Volde- It suggests "Volo" = I will or I wish, but which 
can also mean to fly.  Perhaps it also suggests the Volscians, the 
principal antagonists of the original Caius Marcius Coriolanus as 
described by Plutarch and Shakespeare.


   - CMC

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