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Manchu wrote:Do you guys also pronounce "Commissar" as "chicken pot pie"?

you don't?

and it De-mon. I think think Deamon its just some crazy medieveal spelling.

Manchu wrote:Do you guys also pronounce "Commissar" as "chicken pot pie"?

You have been found wanting of herbs and spices!

KABLAM!

Usually "tuh-zeench" or "t'zeentch" in other words super fast "t" sound then "zeench". But after playing DoW2 the sorcerer says "zeench" so I sometimes say it like that.

I listened to the Dark Crusade Chaos stronghold assault, and the cultist guy seems to pronounce it Zayntch.

sniperjolly wrote:Tiz-nitch, as in, whazzup Tzeench. The "E"s are silent.


Not really.

That's it, that's the only way I'm pronouncing it now. Tiz-nitch.

When speaking quickly, I say zeench, when I am talking properly:

Ts-zee-nch.

I do not pronounce the second T, thats harder than pronouncing the first.

Zeentch is not how I say it. Tszeench is.

Its pronounced "Zeentch"

I perfer having a half pronounced T in the zeench. Kinda like Tiz-eench. Actually more like tsuZeench or sZeench, but with a tiny "t" snuck in there (if that makes any sense, my brain is too pickled in Japaneese class to deal with pronunciation right now.)

TS and TZ are essentially the same sounds in numerous natural languages, it simply depends how it is transliterated. Tzeentch, in my mind, is a perfectly reasonable phonetic spelling for its proper pronunciation. Are there any Czechs on Dakka? They'll tell you that it's one syllable, but it needs more consonants.

As for Daemon, I'm honestly not sure if there is an intended pronunciation between "dee'-mon" and "day'-mon." The weird spelling is just for the visual impact, like people who write "vampyre" or "magick." As a student of Old English, I want to read the ash (that combined 'ae' letter) the Anglo-Saxon way, so it would be pronounced "dah'-muhn," which just sounds silly. Then again, I also read transliterated 'd's as eths (modern 'th' either voiced or unvoiced as the position warrants, same as thorn) in Anglicized translations of Old Norse words. I'd pronounce it just like the modern "demon," but I wouldn't roll my eyes if someone said "day'-mon."

ZENCH is how

In one of the Dawn of War games, it is pronounced "Zeench" in a video.

Case closed!