How do you pronounce Dakka?

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**Hellfury**

Dahka Dahka.

Option #2

**Ghidorah**

Dock-a Dock-a
Lazz cannon (short a)

Corn
Nurgle (like Fur)
Slann esh
Zeentch (first T silent, then Zeen and 'tch' like catch)

Drow (like eyeBROW)

A-LAY-toc Eldar (ai sounding like 'air')...

Ghidorah

**akira5665**

I pronounce it "Dakka(Kid making a machine-gun sound)

Here is AUS, we say "A pair of Dack's"-when decribing our pants

EG-"He's not wearing any Dacks"

**Boss_Salvage**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
K'Tan
Kata-chan (as opposed to Kata'kan as some people I know pronounce it)

With HBMC on both of those. Here's a couple more contentious ones:

Skaven (as the soft a in scavenger)
Tira-nids (as in tyrant not tyranny)

When I was a young'un cavorting about the FLGS I used to call them 'jena-stellers' before realizing it was 'gene' + 'stealers'

- Salvage

**RussWakelin**

Iorek wrote:I pronounce all that junk according to standard American English phonetic rules, so:

docka docka
LAZ-kannon
tseench
slah-NESH

Of course, I can't find any examples offhand that relate to "dakka dakka", so this may just be my phonetic rules kicking in.

Yeah, I'm not really sure you can go to phonics for the "Docka" sound. Any a word that sounds like O almost always has either a silent e or two vowels togeather. I say Dakka is closer to hack, back, lack, mack, sack, pack, rack, bat, cat, mat, sat, or hat.

I mean, if I was writing in 'orkish' and I said "Hurry up ya git and throw more ammo in me gear bakk pakk."

How would you read that out loud? Did he just call his back pack a bock pock?

**The Commissar**

I always pronounced it like #1, but that's how I heard you pronounce it Russ so I guess maybe I'm too trusting.

-Corey

**legoburner**

yakface wrote:

stonefox wrote:What phonics rule says to pronounce an A like an O?

Plus, if the guys who've owned the site both agree, then it must be right! (. . .runs off to check how Legoburner pronounces it. . .)

I pronounce it using a complicated duck-like quacking, and since I speak the queen's english I must be right. On the other hand when I am talking to 'norms' it is just like yakface says, dah-kah dah-kah the sound of a machine gun.

**Mannahnin**

Option 1, of course, since I learned it secondhand from Russ. I think it might be a New Hampshire thing too. LAZcannon with the same "a" sound like "back" too.

In the old-school days when I first got into the hobby army lists among the old Dakka gaming club were occasionally analyzed in terms of how much "Back, Hack, and Dakk" they had. Ie: mobility/ability to get into the backfield, close combat/ability to hack the enemy apart, and shooting/Dakka.

**M_Stress**

option 1
>> it's las-cannon from me, no 'z' as in laser

In french, a single S is pronounce Z, so around here (Québec) it's laz-cannon.

But I suppose that speaking a different language, I would say thing differently

**Flachzange**

Symbio Joe wrote:
As or for dakka I go with duh-ku (like cut). Or duggu cause in the part of germany I live people speak k like g, p like b, and t like d.

Dont do it . . . noooooooooooooooooooo!

I go with the german duck-a

**Death By Monkeys**

Boss_Salvage wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Kata-chan (as opposed to Kata'kan as some people I know pronounce it)

Skaven (as the soft a in scavenger)
Tira-nids (as in tyrant not tyranny)

I'm of the Kata'kan camp myself. And while I can certainly see the logic in pronouncing Skaven that way, I always saw it as Skave-n (rhymes with craven). And I'm not sure why, but I've always pronounced Tyranids as Teer-a-nids.

And even though I know that Saim Hann is actually pronounced sa-win in Celtic, I can't help but pronounce it Same Hawn (primarily because I've learned that in conversations with most other 40k players that if I pronounce it the Celtic way that don't know what I'm talking about). How do folks pronounce Alaitoc? Al-aye-toc? Awl-ah-ee-tawc?

**Boss_Salvage**

Saim Hann -> Sam Hane (like lane)
Alaitoc -> Al-a-tock

- Salvage

**Ozymandias**

I'm in the Skaven = craven camp as well as the Teer-a-nids camp.

As for the Eldar names, who cares?

Ozymandias, King of Kings

**covenant84**

I'm a dah kah type. And since it's from UK........

I'm not intending to be steriotypical as I only know a few american type people, but the the dor kas etc, seem to come from acent rather than correct pronunciation.

Saim Hann - Sam Hane to me
chim-er-a - not ki-mir-a! please noooooooooo
Laz-cannon (lays-cannon implies it's spelt layes cannon in my understanding of the english languae with that magic e chap)
zeetch (I know I'm wrong on that)
often here the young uns saying chaos as chows (i used to as well back in the day)
kata-chan
also heard somone say see-tan before, think they got hurt, no one was happy about it!

drow - drow? certainly not drew?

**MagickalMemories**

RussWakelin wrote:While docka docka kinda sounds to me like someone is performing Irish step dance.

It also sounds like "Wokka Wokka," which is what Fozzie Bear used to say all the time.

...and wargaming is NO place for Muppets.

Eric

**Symbio Joe**

I think it is time someone uploads a mp3 file so we get enlightend.

**MagickalMemories**

Boss_Salvage wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:
K'Tan
Kata-chan (as opposed to Kata'kan as some people I know pronounce it)

With HBMC on both of those. Here's a couple more contentious ones:

Skaven (as the soft a in scavenger)
Tira-nids (as in tyrant not tyranny)

When I was a young'un cavorting about the FLGS I used to call them 'jena-stellers' before realizing it was 'gene' + 'stealers'

- Salvage

K'tan and Kat-a-chan, as well.

As for Skaven & Tyranids... You suck, Boss... LOL

I pronounce 'em
"rats"
and
"bugz"

LOL

Skay-vin
Teer-uh-nidz

Eric

**Boss_Salvage**

Skay-vin
Teer-uh-nidz

Yeah, that's the standard. No idea where you people got Skayvin from, but the Teeruhnidz is just picking the other tyrannical noun

I pronounce 'em
"rats"
and
"bugz"

Yeah, they're 'ratmen' and 'nids' about 98% of the time

- Salvage

**kirsanth**

I voted 2 for the reason people said 1 It seems more like the pheonetics of machine gun noise. . . I guess I was just thinking of a bigger gun.

rarrr

**smart_alex**

Option 1.
Lazcannon.
Nergle
Corn
Zeench
Slah-neesh
K'Tahn
Kata-chan

**yakface**

The 'docka' pronunciation just makes me think of the German guys from the Big Lebowski for some reason.

"Where's the money, Lebowski? Docka Docka, Lebowski."

And the people have spoken! The poll shows a pretty clear majority so those of you out there using 'docka' are just plain wrong, despite the fact that it's a made up word.

**Ozymandias**

Dictionary.com says that its Ki-meer-uh, with the accent on the meer. Not with a "ch" like Church.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chimera

Ozymandias, King of Kings

EDIT: I wasn't able to find Dakka, but I did find dacca:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?are=2&q=dacca

Dak-uh

**Hordini**

Dakka as in smack down.

Lazcannon
Nergel
Zeentch
Slan-esh. Slan as in plan.
Korn
Skaven as in craven.
Teer-uh-nid.
Kata-chan
C'Tan = K'Tan. S'Tan or See'Tan just sounds ridiculous.

**syr8766**

dah-kah dah-kah, as G_P indicated.

I used to pronounce the weapon as a lahscannon, but now I pronounce it as a lazecannon (as in, 'laser cannon').

**Nurglitch**

Don't you mean lazecannon as in 'lazer cannon'?

**whitedragon**

Nurglitch wrote:Don't you mean lazecannon as in 'lazer cannon'?

No, "LASER" cannon.

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

**Stormtrooper X**

I went with option 2, you 78% are the freaks!

And I pronounce it lascannon, like glasscannon with a silent g... or something like that.

**stonefox**

If you take off another letter it forms the name of another nifty weapon.

**malfred**

stonefox wrote:If you take off another letter it forms the name of another nifty weapon.

lasscans? I hesitate to wonder what those are...

**H.B.M.C.**

I say Chim-er-a rather than Kai-mer-a... always have.

Skaven/Craven for me, and Teer-a-nids. Used to say Tie-ran-ids, but not any more.

Sime-Hahn (Sime as in the word "I'm" with an S at the front, Hahn as in the beer)
Al-eye-toc
Eye-an-din
Uhlth-way
Beel-Tan (Beel as in Jessica Biel)

BYE