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Mark me up as one of those guys who pronounces it "Tyranid"

I'd say most people in I've met in the UK call them
Tih-ranid/Tear-anid same as Tyranny and Tyrannosaurus (although lots of people are begining to say Tie-ranno-saurus now)

As they're are British invention you should just go with that

Tear-uh-nid. Well, not quite, perhaps it's just my accent but I don't pronounce the tyr the same as I would tear. Hrm.

tɪrʌnɪd (in pronuncuation language for English)

In other words: Tir - uh - nid

Tear-a-nid

a makes an uh sound in this case

Oh, and you guys don't pronunce "physics" as "fi-sicks" do you? Then why pronunce "Tyranids" as "Tie-ra-nids"?

Although I do pronunce "Hive Tyrant" as "Hive Tie-runt". A tiranny is an existing word.

I see a lot of "Tear-a-nid"
Is that tear pronounced "Tare" Like you're tearing something apart, or "Teer" like the ones that come out of space marine eyes?


Tie runt? Turr-a-bull.

That would be "teer."

I would go with Ti-ra-nid.
It just sounds right...
And this is what happens when you make up words in a language made from half a dozen other languages... personally i think GW should switch to Welsh and see how people argue RAW then...

Tier-uh-nid is the what I've always said it. Emphasis on the first syllable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpb53WEdkjM
At 0:20

There, the way he pronounces it is the way I do.

Doomthumbs please stop posting, as I find your avatar deeply unsettling

I'd have to agree. Teer-a-nid is how I've always said it as well.
There is a 13ish year old kid at my local GW that says "Terrornid". I like that too, even if its wrong.

@Pacific: Ha! Wait until later this week, when "Goatse Tervigon" is finished being painted.

You have yet to be unsettled.

Uh, yeah... As I said earlier this was discussed in an old White Dwarf and they said that it was pronounced like Tyranasaurrous....so uh, I think its however you pronounce that-ie with a hard I. ¬¬

I go with "tear," as in what streams from your eyes when JotWW wrecks your bugs.


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That said, I say the planet they are named after (Tyran) with a long "i" ("eye").

Manchu, "Tear" was the questioned word. Tare or teer were the options there. Kinda like including the word being described in the definition.
Also,I fear no JotWW. it usually goes "Oh, space wolves. Got a drop pod priest with those?"
If the answer is yes, I deploy like I've got some sense, scattering across the x and y axis so that no two low I bugs are less than 25" apart and recite the following joke:

So a baby seal walks into a bar, and the bartender asks what it will have to drink.
"Anything but a Canadian Club."

Doomthumbs wrote:Manchu, "Tear" was the questioned word. Tare or teer were the options there. Kinda like including the word being described in the definition.

Hmm . . . Your OP is:

Doomthumbs wrote:Tee-ran-id?
Tie-ra-nid?

I thought this meant you wanted to know if it was "ty" as in the drink "tea" or "ty" as in the garment businessmen wear around their necks. "Tea" (the sound, not the spelling) + "ran" does not necessarily produce "tear," as in crying -- which, by the way, I did qualify in my post. So I'm a bit confused about your complaint here.

Doomthumbs wrote:@Pacific: Ha! Wait until later this week, when "Goatse Tervigon" is finished being painted.

You have yet to be unsettled.

Manchu wrote: I'm a bit confused about your complaint here.

Well, not really a complaint more of a "Huh, thats funny...". I make a habit of being cautiously polite to people who can ban me.

Doomthumbs wrote:I see a lot of "Tear-a-nid"
Is that tear pronounced "Tare" Like you're tearing something apart, or "Teer" like the ones that come out of space marine eyes?

Melissia wrote:That would be "teer."

See, my confusion was because you had obviously read the post about "Tear" in addition to the OP. I say obviously because you used the same joke that I made there, only modified it for SW.
Melissa answered with one of the two choices provided in that same post, "Teer". The other option was "Tare".
You responded with "Tear".
So, your answer to the pronunciation of "Tear" was the same word, with no different spelling to denote inflection.
I do agree that tea-ran-id would be a better phonetic breakdown for how I've generally said it though. Much appreciated.

Again, I prostrate myself before you and beg your forgiveness if I have offended you.

Tie-ran-id

Gibbsey wrote:

You know, you're right. I can't just promise stuff like that without a teaser. It makes people sad.
So here we go.
My tervigons are essentially paper mache eggs with spare parts from my bits box glued on. The bonus is that its easy, unique, buglike, and I don't waste a large torso of a carnifex/trygon.
Another huuuge upshot is that the egg is hollow, and fits 45 Gants inside, that I can shake them out of the... uhm, orifice as they are spawned. Saves on space in my nid box.



So without further ado... My Tea-ran-id Tervigon.

@Doomthumbs: Ah, I see. I was agreeding with M about the pronunciation but trying to use an actual word so as to clarify regional differences. I probably should have used "tier."

In any case: we have a similar color scheme. Could you lay out how you do the green as I've had a lot of problems with that.

I still pronounce it like GW does in all of their licenced works that I have heard, "Teer a nid" even though I said it like that before I heard it.

Maybe I am missing some other examples of them saying it?


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(I also pronounce Tyran as Teer an, and Tyrany as Teer any, but Lasgun as Lahz gun)

Doomthumbs wrote:Another huuuge upshot is that the egg is hollow, and fits 45 Gants inside, that I can shake them out of the... uhm, orifice as they are spawned. Saves on space in my nid box.

So without further ado... My Tea-ran-id Tervigon.

Dude... thinking about what the other side looks like has me terrified...

I say Tie-ran-id, like tyrannosaurous, but someone kept correcting me saying it was Tir-a-nid so this has put some light on my situation.

As per what I put here

Kilkrazy wrote:Just to set everyone straight, here are the correct pronunciations.

Ti ra nid
Ti ra nee
Ti ran ical
Tie rant

Look them up in dictionary.

Except we speak English and just because a word looks the same doesn't mean it is pronounced the same, unfortunately =S.

What did you think it was?


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Oh yeah, I had a really smart dude tell me that Tyrannosaurus and words like that are derived from latin.

Tyrannosaurus rex, right? Latin.

Tyranid? Thats English, sir.

Tee-ran-id.

Doomthumbs wrote:Oh yeah, I had a really smart dude tell me that Tyrannosaurus and words like that are derived from latin.

Tyrannosaurus rex, right? Latin.

Tyranid? Thats English, sir.

Tee-ran-id.

Greek by way of Latin and Old French, I believe. It doesn't matter if 'Tyranid' is English, it follows its root, i.e. tyrannus (Latin) and tyrannos (Greek) and therefore it will follow the rules around that.

Why do you think 'debt' is spelled as it is, instead of 'dette' (as it used to be)? Because the root is 'debitum'

You are so full of effing ess that I cannot believe it sir.

Tyranid has Latin roots? GTFO. Its a word made up by GW, in our lifetime, none of whom speak Latin. Technically, its "Roots" have not even come to pass yet, as it is derived from the planet Tyran(as yet undiscovered), so named by some Astropath (an as yet uncreated job) in the year 40 thousand (its gonna be a while).

Tyrannos? You're so high right now aren't you?
Trying to give me gak about grammar... please.
I was mapping sentences while you were a twinkle in your fathers eye.