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Leonus Cohol wrote:Eggs-arch.

Oh man, I wish. It was something way more bewildering. Like swapping the 'x' anch 'ch. And maybe putting the 'a' somewhere else entirely.

Eggs-arch? really?

Its Ex-arc, possably Eggs-arc.

certaintly no h at the end. we don't have former Archs running around.

One that's always bothered me is C'tan. I have heard about 4 different pronunciations of the word.

K-tahn

K-tan

Sigh-tahn

Sigh-tan

The last two are, admittedly from a guy who has a mild case of dyslexia (that he got checked, legitimately), so he has issues with pronunciation in general.

is vox pronounced "vow" or does it rhyme with fox?

I always said it sih-tan, and so has everyone I play with.

Also, if it helps anyone's opinion on Baal, in Diablo II during the cinematic they pronounce it like Bayle. Not that Blizzard is the authority on pronunciation or anything.


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Why would vox be pronounced vow? Its based on Latin, it definitely rhymes with vox.

lledwey wrote:I always said it sih-tan, and so has everyone I play with.

Also, if it helps anyone's opinion on Baal, in Diablo II during the cinematic they pronounce it like Bayle. Not that Blizzard is the authority on pronunciation or anything.


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Why would vox be pronounced vow? Its based on Latin, it definitely rhymes with vox.

Vox definitely rhymes with vox, huh? So helpful.

I believe it is pronounced Vocks (as in, rhymes with fox). It's how they say it in the video games, the few times it comes up.

And Baal should be pronounced Bayle, not Ball.

Yeah, I meant to type fox, brainfart!

There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst. Though to be honest, I used to pronounce Chaos as "Chay-oz"... but i was 9. I miss HeroQuest.

Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.

Grey Templar wrote:Eggs-arch? really?

Its Ex-arc, possably Eggs-arc.

certaintly no h at the end. we don't have former Archs running around.

I kind of assume it was in response to me saying a friend of mine severely mispronounced it. Obviously it's ex-arc, accidentally mispronouncing such a straightforward word shouldn't be possible. Much like cat-a-chan.


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DeffDred wrote:There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst.

oh man, chim-er-ah is rampant, it's really a bit of an indictment on the hobby community when so many people mangle non-fictional words.

DeffDred wrote:There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst. Though to be honest, I used to pronounce Chaos as "Chay-oz"... but i was 9. I miss HeroQuest.

It's Kai-me-ra.

When we much younger we stuggled a bit with B'jorn the fell handed. I think we had to be introduced to ABBA to get it properly, I say 'we', I wasn't the one playing Space Wolves.

Locclo wrote:One that's always bothered me is C'tan. I have heard about 4 different pronunciations of the word.

K-tahn

K-tan

Sigh-tahn

Sigh-tan

It's "See-tan"

I pronounce the "c" in "C'tan" as a "s", so like "si-tan".
I also pronounce "vox" like it rhymes with "fox".
Aquila I pronounce "a-ki-la".

The great thing about Latin is, most of the time, it is pronounced as it is spelled. Unlike a certain language (*cough* English *cough*).

English is a weird language.

I always said C'tan as Ca-tan.

Vox rhymes with fox and is an abbreviation of vocalise which is used today.

Tzeentch I pronounce Zeen-ch, with a bit of a t at the start.

Khorne is Corn.

I've always said Slaanesh witha short 'a', but I just realised it's probably meant to be Slay nesh or something.

forruner_mercy wrote:The great thing about Latin is, most of the time, it is pronounced as it is spelled. Unlike a certain language (*cough* English *cough*).

English is a weird language.

A lot of English is based on Latin, but often run through other languages first.

Aquila gets said around here as "a cwi la".
C'tan is "S'tan", with a short S.
Slaanesh, I stretch the Aa as "Slahnesh".
Exarch is from the same origins as Arch angel (that's "ark angel"), so "ex arc", with a soft ending.
Baal as "Bahl".

Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.

Cant comment on the Druidic seasons but the only two from the Celtic calendar are:
Saim-Hann (Samhain. Samhain whilst being a season is best know for the festival of Halloween)
Bieltan (Beltan)
The other two Celtic seasons are Imbolc and Lughnasadh.

Fairly sure the pagan calendar dosent have any direct season translations either to the likes of Ulthwe, Alaitoc, Yem-Loc etc. However it is possible the Scots/Manx/Welsh Gaelic has closer approximations.

C'Tan = Sea-Tan

Exarch = Ex-ark

Baal = Bail (Like Pail or Snail)

Vox rhymes with Fox.

Aquila = A-Quil-A, Like Atila the Hunn.

People in our group say Ka-ta-kan, and it annoys the hell out of me.

I say K-tan (hard 'c') and not sea-tan.

I pronounce Baal like they do on Stargate - "Baahl" (not Bayle like in Diablo II, or Ba-ahl as two syllables - it would be Ba'al then, rather than Baal).

And anyone who says Layz-cannon gets slapped.

DeffDred wrote:There a few things over the years I've heard that have made me grind my teeth but, Chimera spoken as "Chim-ER-ah" was the worst.

See I do that and I know it's wrong. But when the Chimera was first introduced all the way back in the Titan Legions days I was very young, and did not know what a Chimera actually was.

Ratius wrote:

Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.

Cant comment on the Druidic seasons but the only two from the Celtic calendar are:
Saim-Hann (Samhain. Samhain whilst being a season is best know for the festival of Halloween)
Bieltan (Beltan)
The other two Celtic seasons are Imbolc and Lughnasadh.

Fairly sure the pagan calendar dosent have any direct season translations either to the likes of Ulthwe, Alaitoc, Yem-Loc etc. However it is possible the Scots/Manx/Welsh Gaelic has closer approximations.

It's actually spelled Bealtaine to be completely correct, and pronounced 'Byow-the na'.

Locclo wrote:One that's always bothered me is C'tan. I have heard about 4 different pronunciations of the word.

K-tahn

K-tan

Sigh-tahn

Sigh-tan

The last two are, admittedly from a guy who has a mild case of dyslexia (that he got checked, legitimately), so he has issues with pronunciation in general.

see here



skip to about the 9 minute mark,

Nvm, you meant the month not the craftworld

reds8n wrote:

Allan Meritt pronounces 'Roboute Guilliman' as 'Rah-boo-tah Gooh-li-man', not the way it is in that video. And he's the head of IP, so he might win out here.

Ratius wrote:

Oh BTW if anyone is interested, and doesn't already know, the Eldar Craftworlds are all named after the pagan(druidic/celtic?) seasons. I used to call Saam Hein(spelling?) "Sam Haine" until a lady friend overheard me and corrected me.

Cant comment on the Druidic seasons but the only two from the Celtic calendar are:
Saim-Hann (Samhain. Samhain whilst being a season is best know for the festival of Halloween)
Bieltan (Beltan)
The other two Celtic seasons are Imbolc and Lughnasadh.

Fairly sure the pagan calendar dosent have any direct season translations either to the likes of Ulthwe, Alaitoc, Yem-Loc etc. However it is possible the Scots/Manx/Welsh Gaelic has closer approximations.

There's Yule in that list of festivals, amongst others.
Those above are pronounced "Sow-in" for Samhain and "Loo nassa" for Lughnasadh.
You'll have to find a speaker of Celtic ("Kel tik") languages to tell you the rest.

The Craftworlds are not pronounced the same way, though.

Is Macragge really pronounced Muh-crag?

I always thought it was Mac-ridge (say it out loud...). I heard it pronounced Muh-crag on the Space marine movie and it took me a minute to even realize what they were talking about because 'Mac-ridge' seemed so natural.

Muh-crag though? My first thoughts are 'Muh-crack', which then devolves into 'I got some monkey butt in 'Muh-crack'", then I chuckly at my childishly witty humor.

Worms

Worms4u wrote:Is Macragge really pronounced Muh-crag?

I always thought it was Mac-ridge (say it out loud...). I heard it pronounced Muh-crag on the Space marine movie and it took me a minute to even realize what they were talking about because 'Mac-ridge' seemed so natural.

Muh-crag though? My first thoughts are 'Muh-crack', which then devolves into 'I got some monkey but in 'Muh-crack'", then I chuckly at my childishly witty humor.

Worms

Its Muh-crag. It helps if you say it with a cheezy scottish accent too

Grey Templar wrote:

Worms4u wrote:Is Macragge really pronounced Muh-crag?

I always thought it was Mac-ridge (say it out loud...). I heard it pronounced Muh-crag on the Space marine movie and it took me a minute to even realize what they were talking about because 'Mac-ridge' seemed so natural.

Muh-crag though? My first thoughts are 'Muh-crack', which then devolves into 'I got some monkey but in 'Muh-crack'", then I chuckly at my childishly witty humor.

Worms

Its Muh-crag. It helps if you say it with a cheezy scottish accent too

It's like McDonalds, but "Mc Rag".

A good one is a character from the Doctor Who novels called "Chris Cwej"

Within fandom that has been pronounced from "Kwedge" to "Shvay" and everything in between.

So much so it became a running joke in the books that people mispronounced his name. It was "Shvay" incidentally.

And you do things for it.

"Hey, we're out of milk. Go run down to the shop and pick up a gallon... FOR MACRAGGE!"

"I took the day off so I could hit the beach while the weather's nice FOR MACRAGGE!"

and so forth.

"Samhain" is, incidentally, not pronounced "Sam Haine", but that is because English and Gaelic letters are not pronounced remotely the same, and most of the people reading it speak the former and none of the latter.

The pronunciation also changes depending on which Gaelic language you're speaking, but "sow-un" is pretty close to the mark.

Likewise, "Beltane" is not "bell-tain", "bee-yawl-tin-nuh" or something like that is more appropriate, though that's a best-effort attempt.

chromedog wrote:Baal would depend on whether you spoke Afrikaans or Dutch, surely (both of these languages use the 'aa' combination not uncommonly).

I pronounce it with a glottal stop after the first 'a', so it is TWO syllables.

Actually, this. I didn't realize I actually did this until I read this post and thought about it.

Also, I thought C'tan was pronounced with a hard C (Ka-Tan). Anyone know the correct way to go about it?

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

chromedog wrote:Baal would depend on whether you spoke Afrikaans or Dutch, surely (both of these languages use the 'aa' combination not uncommonly).

I pronounce it with a glottal stop after the first 'a', so it is TWO syllables.

Actually, this. I didn't realize I actually did this until I read this post and thought about it.

Also, I thought C'tan was pronounced with a hard C (Ka-Tan). Anyone know the correct way to go about it?

See-Tan,


Baal is pronounced like the Middle Eastern God of the same name. B-ale as in a Bale of Hay.

I read in a White Dwarf that Catachan is pronouced, cat-a-can.

Small, Far Away wrote:I read in a White Dwarf that Catachan is pronouced, cat-a-can.

Its pronounced exactly like its spelled. Cat-a-chan