21 things you never knew about ‘The Jungle Book’

Some essential facts about Disney’s 1967 animated classic

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’.