[Ads-l] Rowling pronunciation

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 10, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> rhymes with "Bowling"
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Dashed shame, that. I've been hearing it in my head as "R-ow-ling."

No problem; you can hear it that way on TV about half the time it's pronounced.

LH

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