Thursday, September 19, 2002, 4:37:54 PM, :
AW> How should the name Mowgli be pronounced? Is the first syllable like that
AW> of Mouse or that of Mower?
The 1987 Penguin Classics edition of 'The Jungle Books' edited by
Daniel Karlin [note 15 on page 350] quotes Kipling as saying in
'Author's Notes on the Names in the Jungle Books', 1937, that: "It
is pronounced 'Mowglee' (accent on the 'Mow')".
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