JKR punning names (was: New Member and question)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 160667

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff:
> > As I have often remarked in the past JKR has a whole raft of punning 
> > names. Examples are Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, Umbridge, 
> > Grimmauld, Durmstrang, Hogwarts and fascinating new meaning for 
> > Apparition and Disillusion.
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> Heh.  I remember how long it took me to catch on to Diagon Alley and 
> shaking my head that it wasn't patently obvious from the very moment I 
> saw that chapter title.  I do love the way JKR has had such fun with 
> names -- Professors Vector & Sprout, Durmstrang, even the Griffin[-]
> door knocker....
> 
> Now, though, at the risk of revealing myself as a complete dolt, I'm 
> going to make myself just buck up and ask:  What's the pun 
> with "Hogwarts"?  Do you just mean the turn-around from the word 
> warthog?  Or is there something I'm missing?? 

Geoff:
Hi Susan, greetings from the land of the Exmoor pony!

Yes, basically, it is.

In message 152666, back in May, I wrote:

"I did point out the other day that 'hogwart" is JKR's spoonerising of
"warthog" which is an African wild pig. off topic, I think Flanders
and Swann did a song about the warthog in their Bestiary set."

Perhaps at a tangent to this topic but worth a re-read is a thread named "
Wordplays/what's fun about the HPs?" which later transmogrified into 
"Winged boars". The thread starts at message 152553.