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Or confusing J&H with The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Which amounts to the same thing.

Actually, it was Alan Moore who created the character, but Neil does insist on the "tyne" pronunciation, too. (Sometimes, I also use the "teen" pronunciation, but it's either because I forget, or because I feel like giving up arguing about it.)

Heretic!

Don't harsh their wallow!

This reminds me of a time back in the day when I was in an on-line discussion of 2010, and happened to mention a scene in the movie where Roy Scheider and James McEachin are on a sidewalk bench with the White House in the background, discussing the issues at hand. Off to screen left, there's a...

Never mind. Duplication of another post.

Possibly for the same reasons that for the last 30+ years most people pronounce "John Constantine" as "Constan-TEEN" when it should be pronunced "Constan-TYNE" (according to the man who created the character).

That's what it said. Confusion abounds. ;)

Maybe. Or maybe there is some confusion by others on the matter. Per the AFI Catalog: "According to NYT, Robert Louis Stevenson, the nephew of the author, appeared in the film as an extra, reportedly because he could speak with a cockney accent."