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Yup, like that.

Hm, my friends and I (as in, everyone at my FLGS) pronounce it A-buh-dawn (A as in ack, alley, etc.)

Not, of course, to be confused with the Chaos pop band, ABBAdon...

Locclo wrote:Hm, my friends and I (as in, everyone at my FLGS) pronounce it A-buh-dawn (A as in ack, alley, etc.)

Not, of course, to be confused with the Chaos pop band, ABBAdon...

Thinking about how other names from similar origins are pronounced, I'd have to go with "Abb-add-on".
I prefer "Ah-bad-un", but it doesn't sound correct.

Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.

For Tzeench I always say zench. I never use the zEEnch.

Everything is pretty much exactly as is if you use a 1st grade level of sounding it out lol.

C'tan K-TAN and/or KA-TAN

Slaanesh SLUH-NESH or you could achieve the same result with SLAA-NESH


Chimera KAI-MERA . kai rhymes with guy/my


I never had a problem with this stuff ;\
though i have heard some crazy things. Saying "Teench" as TUH-ZAH-ENCH freaking terrible I was laughing in my head while displaying a smile.

Lol, fail

GamzaTheChaos wrote:Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.

Ohhh, so close. Satin?

Yeah, should be Satan.

Cuh-TA-shun
ABBA-don
Ki-MEER-a (Ki rhymes with guy)
Sla-NESH
Cuh-TAN
Si-CARE-eeus (Si rhymes with bit)
Bahl (as in Roald Dahl)
TIH-ru-nid
CAY-dee-un
Rob-oot GUY-li-man

Seems like most people pronounce most things the same.

forruner_mercy wrote:What about chitin?

Chih(kinda like chin)-tin

vodo40k wrote:The only pronunciation which still annoys me is "Abbadon".

I have always pronounced it Ah-bad-un (kinda like someone saying "'im? 'ees a bad 'un")

Where as other pronounce it Ab-add-on

Which is correct? (though i feel my pronunciation is probably wrong, ive said it that way so long its hard to change)


As for other arguments, I have always said LAZ-gun. Khrone is said like "corn" but with more emphasis in the "H" like "cool whip".

For primarchs (pry-mark) I have always said: Sang(hard, lower case G)-win-ee-us, Robe-oot-Goohl-ih-mun, Mort-air-ree-on, Hohr-us, Full-grim.

I say it the same way. I pronounce Khorne as "corn as well.

With Tzeentch I alternate between ZEE-ntch and tah-ZEE-ntch

And for Chimera, I pronounce it ki(like kite)-mehr-uh, if that makes any sense.

Dragearen wrote:

forruner_mercy wrote:What about chitin?

Chih(kinda like chin)-tin

vodo40k wrote:The only pronunciation which still annoys me is "Abbadon".

I have always pronounced it Ah-bad-un (kinda like someone saying "'im? 'ees a bad 'un")

Where as other pronounce it Ab-add-on

Which is correct? (though i feel my pronunciation is probably wrong, ive said it that way so long its hard to change)


As for other arguments, I have always said LAZ-gun. Khrone is said like "corn" but with more emphasis in the "H" like "cool whip".

For primarchs (pry-mark) I have always said: Sang(hard, lower case G)-win-ee-us, Robe-oot-Goohl-ih-mun, Mort-air-ree-on, Hohr-us, Full-grim.

I say it the same way. I pronounce Khorne as "corn as well.

With Tzeentch I alternate between ZEE-ntch and tah-ZEE-ntch

And for Chimera, I pronounce it ki(like kite)-mehr-uh, if that makes any sense.

So close, but chitin is just like chimera. Kai-tin.

Not "kih-tin?

forruner_mercy wrote:Not "kih-tin?

Well, there is such a thing pronounced that way, but it's one of these:



I always pronounced chitin as chai-tin, myself. Although looking back, it makes perfect sense that it would be pronounced kai-tin.

Yeah, I can see how "kai-tin" would work.

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

GamzaTheChaos wrote:Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.

Ohhh, so close. Satin?

Wrong, but it isn't your fault.

The Biblical Abbaddon is simply the Angel of Destruction. He is NOT a fallen angel as far as the Bible teaches us. Just like the Angel of Death who smote down the first born of egypt, he was most certaintly not a fallen angel.

We have no evidence that Abbaddon is aligned with Satan(originally named Lucifer, which means Light Bearer)

Always thought it was a bit ironic.

Grey Templar wrote:

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

GamzaTheChaos wrote:Well Abaddon from the Bible is pronounced UH-BAD-N and that's how I have always pronounced it which means Destroyer, Angel of the bottomless pit. It's Satin basically.

Ohhh, so close. Satin?

Wrong, but it isn't your fault.

The Biblical Abbaddon is simply the Angel of Destruction. He is NOT a fallen angel as far as the Bible teaches us. Just like the Angel of Death who smote down the first born of egypt, he was most certaintly not a fallen angel.

We have no evidence that Abbaddon is aligned with Satan(originally named Lucifer, which means Light Bearer)

haha my bad on Satan's name It was like 7AM when i wrote all that and I didn't sleep that night.

not to turn this into a biblical debate which I won't but Abaddon also known as Apollyon was the name given to Satan so it's indeed him. Satan has more then 1 name. the destroyer, dragon etc those are all names for him from a biblical stand.


Reference is Strong's exhaustive concordance of the Bible. 3 of the Greek dictionary for Abaddon. 623 of the Greek dictionary for Apollyon.

Exodus chapter 12 verse 23. "The LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you."

the "destroyer" is Abaddon and/or Apollyon.


ok I think that's enough for today.

Lol yup

gabrielhorus wrote:To bring the thread back on topic:

does anyone know how to properly pronounce Captian Sicarus?

I was not expecting such a large responce, though the Latin one is probably right.

gabrielhorus wrote:To bring the thread back on topic:

does anyone know how to properly pronounce Captian Sicarus?

KAY- TOE SIH- CARE- EE- UHS

UH- BA- DIHN

Seriously, surprised everyone pronounces Catchan differently. I thought it was common knowledge that it's pronounced CAT- A- CAN or CAT uh KEN

Samus_aran115 wrote:

gabrielhorus wrote:To bring the thread back on topic:

does anyone know how to properly pronounce Captian Sicarus?

KAY- TOE SIH- CARE- EE- UHS

UH- BA- DIHN

Seriously, surprised everyone pronounces Catchan differently. I thought it was common knowledge that it's pronounced CAT- A- CAN or CAT uh KEN

Nope! It seems like it might similar to how tomato and potato are pronounced.