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EnTyme wrote:

My job involves tech support in the UK. It's amazing to me how quickly I started identifying regional accents. Makes me wonder if non-Americans can tell the difference in our regional accents.

I can for the most part, funnily enough it's the region that I was born in that I struggle in identifying most, as dialects can vary massively in that region.

Not like Americans can work us out normally anyway - they still think we're all Cockney's and pronounce butter and water like "butta and worta"

oldzoggy wrote:Does it help to know that mine are painted yellow and filled with boyz

If your Killkannons are belt fed with lemons, then yes

Cab this be the general pronunciation thread then?

What about Chimera? Ky-mee-rah? Or Shy-mee-rah?

Tyranids? Tie-Rah-Nids? Or Tir-Ah-Nids?

And let's not get started on all those fething Tau names...

Chimera is pronounced just like the mythical creature it's named after - ky-mee-rah

Tyranid - tir-ah-nids, as pronounced many times in 40k games and by members of GW

Tau names are usually easy due to the apostrophes separating the pronunciation for you; Shas'o = shaz-o, Shas'la = shaz-lah, Aun'shi - ow-nn-shee etc.

I'm definitely in the Lemon Russ gang, it's just easier to say.

Lemon Ruse

Yup, for me it's Leemun Roose, I guess would be the best phonetic spelling.

 General Kroll wrote:
Cab this be the general pronunciation thread then?

What about Chimera? Ky-mee-rah? Or Shy-mee-rah?

Tyranids? Tie-Rah-Nids? Or Tir-Ah-Nids?

And let's not get started on all those fething Tau names...

...Where are we getting Shy-mee-rah from? The 'ch' is the Greek letter 'chi' (written 'x' in Greek and pronounced approximately 'kh'), I've never heard it pronounced any other way.


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While we're asking more pronunciation questions, plural double 'i' as in 'Skitarii'? I'd always assumed it was '...ee-ai', but I've been told in actual Latin it's supposed to be closer to 'e-ee'.

Ley-man Russ
Ro-boot Goo-le-man
Ky-mair-uh
Teer-uh-nids
Skih-tar-ee

Primarchs are easy

Horus
Lemon
Super secret #1
Ferris Bueller
Fulgrim
Rogal
Rowboat
Magnus
Sangy
Lion
The anxious one
Morty
Logbook
Jaguar
Batman
Aggron
Birdman
Super secret #2
Alpha Legion doesn't have a primarch

So it's probably the lemon russ.

Leh - man (as in policeman) Russ.

For those thinking Roos would be a Scandinavian pronounciation, it certainly doesn't match up with modern Norwegian. Russ is a high-school graduated hellbent on partying for three weeks in May while wearing red overalls and driving around in a custom party bus, and the "u" is a very quick and snappy "oo" sound. Russ ain't no kangaroo.

 Verviedi wrote:
Ro-boot-tey Gïy-eh-man.

That.

 Engine of War wrote:
Just call it a TANK

But beyond that.

Lee-man Russ with russ pronounced similar to the rus in "rust"


What more irritates me are people at my FLGS who pronounce Chimera with a Ch like from Chinook. Its not pronounced like that!!! In Chimera the CH is pronounced with a K sound

Its difficult to explain, beyond "k-imera" like the ki in "Kite"

The reason I'm writin', is how to pronounce Chitin.

 EnTyme wrote:

 General Annoyance wrote:

 Baldeagle91 wrote:
Tbh being a midlander I keep switching between the two

Us Midlanders really do struggle to talk without sounding funny to everyone else - I sometimes talk more like a Northerner or even use Americanisms so my accent doesn't come off as one of a snob

My job involves tech support in the UK. It's amazing to me how quickly I started identifying regional accents. Makes me wonder if non-Americans can tell the difference in our regional accents.

You think that's bad, I used to work in a complaint department where our other two call centres were in Glasgow and Liverpool, with call staff who had the thickest accent possible. By comparison they thought we were really posh

Lee-man Ruse

LEE-muhn RUHSS

 Baldeagle91 wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:

 General Annoyance wrote:

 Baldeagle91 wrote:
Tbh being a midlander I keep switching between the two

Us Midlanders really do struggle to talk without sounding funny to everyone else - I sometimes talk more like a Northerner or even use Americanisms so my accent doesn't come off as one of a snob

My job involves tech support in the UK. It's amazing to me how quickly I started identifying regional accents. Makes me wonder if non-Americans can tell the difference in our regional accents.

You think that's bad, I used to work in a complaint department where our other two call centres were in Glasgow and Liverpool, with call staff who had the thickest accent possible. By comparison they thought we were really posh

I've noticed that the farther north you go on that little island, the harder you people are to understand . I can see Glasgow being tough, but I can usually understand calls from Liverpool just fine.

 General Kroll wrote:
Cab this be the general pronunciation thread then?

Ok. I changed the title so we can have more fun with it.