King of Thorns question

Asked Mark on Twitter and here is his reply

"It started as Jorge like George, but Americans read it as Hoor-Hey. So it went to Jorg. The UK audiobook didn't ask me & say Yorg. The US did & say J for jug, org as in Borg"

And there you have it. The Brits assumed it was Yorg, the Yanks assumed it was Jorg. It is definitely not George or Hoorhey!

I am the same mate i just Pronounced it as Yorg and just thought it was a strange name.
why do you try sending Mark Lawrence a message his on here.

I read it as a variation of George.

I guess I've been doing a combination of what others have. I use the J/G sound such as in George, but then pronounce the 'org' such as in Yorg. So, kind of like G-org. Probably not correct,but I find I pronounce a lot of book characters incorrectly.

At first I pronounced it as Yorg but then I got the audiobooks and the narrator pronounces it as Gorg - Starts with a soft G, ends with a hard G.

Similarly, I pronounced Sir Makin as Sir Mak-in but the audiobook narrator pronounces it as Make-in.

I presume the narrator got info on pronunciation so I stick with their versions.

I pronounce it as Yorg. In Dutch there are quite a few names which you pronounced the same, so I've never really questened it.

The audio books pronounces it J"org" with a hard J so it sounds like its spelled:)

It is pronounced exactly as it's spelled, Jorg. I asked Mark Lawrence via Facebook and he confirmed this.

I thought it was pronounced as it was spelled. Jorg.

i think we need a vote. 7 out of eleven pronounce it as it's spelt., with number seven being my vote. Although, it's like jorg is the derivation of george because it's been what? A thousand years since boys were given that name? this is all within the story of course.

With a hard J.

I imagined it with a y sound for a long time "yorg" until I saw Mark Lawrence say the J is pronounced like a J, and is an evolution of "George." Makes total sense considering the future-earth setting.

Wow. All this time I was saying "Yorg."