As first images from brilliant Beasts and Where to Find Them hit the web,Entertainment Weekly has controversially revealed that the film’s witches employ term ‘no-maj’ to picture non-magical compatriots It’s a word that has become so wholly co-opted into the lexicon that it even entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2003. So it should perhaps come as little surprise that fans of Harry Potter author JK Rowling are complaining over the replacement of the traditional term for a non-magical person in the writer’s books, muggle, or with a rogue American equivalent in current movie brilliant Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Entertainment Weekly published the first images from Rowling’s film,which is set 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter books and movies, on Wednesday. And the magazine has revealed that American witches and wizards employ the alternate term “no-maj, or short for “no magic”,when describing those who are unable to practise spell casting.
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Source: theguardian.com