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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 20, 2023 14:04:02 GMT
Some years ago on Project Aon i found out to my surprise that I had been pronouncing the word Giak wrongly.
I had been saying it GUY - Ack.
[with the first syllable being the English pronunciation of the name Guy, rhyming with 'lie']
But it turns out the 'GI-' should be pronounced to rhyme with 'me'. Like the French pronunciation of Guy.
Gee-ak [with a hard g]
Which makes me wonder what else I've been getting wrong.
How to pronounce Bythos?
BUY-thos? or BEE-thos? or BITH-os [with the bith rhyming with 'pith']
And how is Kokomokoa to be said? Where's the stressed syllable? I think i've been saying it in my head as something like 'Cocoa-Mc-COA'
Anyone got any other examples?
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Post by scouserob on Aug 20, 2023 14:11:37 GMT
A different FF but I'll always pronounce Tidus as Tai-dus rather than Tee-dus.
Sauron was, in my mind, Soar-on rather than Sour-on before I read the appendices/foreword/wherever Tolkien specified the proper pronunciation.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 20, 2023 14:15:11 GMT
Sauron was, in my mind, Soar-on rather than Sour-on before I read the appendices/foreword/wherever Tolkien specified the proper pronunciation. Yes. I was the same. I looked at saur and presumed it was pronounced the same as the saur in dinosaur. I used to think the Zag in Zagor was like the zag in zigzag. In fact it is ZAY-gor. |
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Post by a moderator on Aug 20, 2023 14:17:45 GMT
L'Bastin is pronounced 'Throat-wobbler Mangrove'.
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Post by kieran on Aug 20, 2023 16:05:25 GMT
A different FF but I'll always pronounce Tidus as Tai-dus rather than Tee-dus. Sauron was, in my mind, Soar-on rather than Sour-on before I read the appendices/foreword/wherever Tolkien specified the proper pronunciation. I still say it Tai-dus. And I refuse to even countenance calling Aeris 'Aerith'. |
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 20, 2023 18:11:08 GMT
I remember that there was some discussion of pronunciation before which astonished me and which I've blanked out. I'm too far gone to change the way I think of words I've had set in mind since the 80s or 90s. Words from FF I've encountered more recently (which is many of them), yes. Sauron was, in my mind, Soar-on rather than Sour-on before I read the appendices/foreword/wherever Tolkien specified the proper pronunciation. Yes. I was the same. I looked at saur and presumed it was pronounced the same as the saur in dinosaur. I used to think the Zag in Zagor was like the zag in zigzag. In fact it is ZAY-gor. For me it will always be Zagor, possible long-lost twin of Zigor. |
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Post by paperexplorer on Aug 20, 2023 21:47:13 GMT
Zay-gor... been doing that wrong and will continue to, zag-or sounds better.
Okay... is Khul pronounced cool or cull?
And Jaxartes... I feel like maybe there is a trick to the j or the x or both as this is a weird name
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Post by sylas on Aug 20, 2023 21:52:25 GMT
I always pronounced it as Port Black Sand.
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Post by tyrion on Aug 21, 2023 6:39:12 GMT
Al-an-zhuh? Al-ain-zhuh? Allan-zee-a?
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 21, 2023 17:47:12 GMT
Zay-gor... been doing that wrong and will continue to, zag-or sounds better. Okay... is Khul pronounced cool or cull? And Jaxartes... I feel like maybe there is a trick to the j or the x or both as this is a weird name I say it as Kull. But is the Kh meant to be like the Scottish 'ch' in loch and the Arabic Kh- as in the name Khalid ? Jaxartes for me is Jacks-ARE-tees rather than Jacks-arts. Khare I used to pronounce as Karray. I think it's meant to be K'haaray [the ay being the e-acute from french] Al-an-zhuh? Al-ain-zhuh? Allan-zee-a? I've heard it to be: a-LAN-sea-a |
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Post by vastariner on Aug 21, 2023 18:10:55 GMT
Bythos ought properly to be boo-thoss, given the y in Greek-derived words represents the Greek upsilon, which is more French u (or German ü). But bee-thos is most idiomatic for its etymology.
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 21, 2023 18:23:32 GMT
Al-an-zhuh? Al-ain-zhuh? Allan-zee-a? Surely an S not a Z? The two Ls implies to me Allan-see-a? |
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Post by schlendrian on Aug 22, 2023 11:53:32 GMT
Bythos like you would pronounce the ancient city of Byblos, so, with an 'ü' as vastariner said (don't know of any English word that makes this sound). The Jaxartes is an actual river on earth, so pronounciation should probably mirror that.
As a kid I loved books on dinosaurs, and I was amazed when I got an English book that featured pronounciation guides: bra-kee-u-sore-us. There's just not much need for discussions like these in any languages except English  |
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Post by trialmaster on Aug 22, 2023 13:29:03 GMT
I have always pronounced Yaztromo as Yaztramow with equal emphasis on all parts of the word.
But I have heard it pronounced recently as Yaz-trow-mow with more emphasis on the Yaz, which seemed alien to me as I had pronounced it differently for nearly 40 years!
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Aug 24, 2023 16:59:59 GMT
I have always pronounced Yaztromo as Yaztramow with equal emphasis on all parts of the word. But I have heard it pronounced recently as Yaz-trow-mow with more emphasis on the Yaz, which seemed alien to me as I had pronounced it differently for nearly 40 years! I was the same as you. But it's pronounced in the same pattern as Nostromo (the Joseph Conrad novel/ ship out of Alien) |
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Post by sleepyscholar on Sept 3, 2023 4:20:45 GMT
I can definitely state that 'Bythos' is pronounced 'BEEG-bahd' (he never was any good at spelling, which is probably the reason he decided to become a villain).
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