You’ve been pronouncing Mowgli wrong. At least, you have if you’ve been following Disney’s lead. In the film, it’s pronounced “MOE-glee,” but according to Rudyard Kipling’s daughter Elsie Kipling Baimbridge—and she should know—it’s meant to be pronounced so that the first syllable rhymes with cow: “MOW-glee.”

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