“A Guide To Potter-isms: Wizardspeak In Translation” (NPR Morning Edition, July 15, 2011)
Ben Zimmer runs the web site Visual Thesaurus, which maps words and their relationships to each other. On Friday’s Morning Edition, he talks with host Mary Louise Kelly about the special vocabulary that’s arisen from Harry Potter books and films — the last of which, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, opens this weekend. He compiled this quick guide to Potterisms.
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