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The title says it all, I'm usually good with pronouncing things, but this one eludes me.....

i really think its pronounced like, E-clues-e-arky (i think) thats how ive been saying it anyway haha

Websters (and I'm paraphrasing my phonetics)

Eh-kleez-ee-arkhy

Cath-o-lichs

ForgottenRealm wrote:
Eh-kleez-ee-arkhy

This.

Its /Ikliziarki/
or [ih-klee-zee-ahrkee] if you do not know IPA

Click here To hear what it sounds like

Holy Cow, I've been saying it wrong! I light-weight feel the urge to mass e-mail my gaming group to inform them all.

I usually screw up the pronunciation and turn the Kee sound at the end into a Chee sound at the end. Like cheese, but without the S sound.

It's based on the Latin word ecclesia, for a church (singular) and the Greek ekklesia for a church also.

The Greek gives you the big clue as to how it is pronounced. Assuming it follows Greek and Latin pronounciation norms then it is roughly:

Eh klee's ee arc ee

The ' denotes a sound that it is clipped a short sound not a long kleeze but a clipped klee's sound. It should be more 's' than 'z'.

MA in Ancient History is occasionally useful!

However, given that it is not real you could probably pronounce it however you like! I always get stick from my way of saying Leman Russ!


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That's a hard 'c' in arc btw, no soft 'c' in latin or Greek, i.e. no 'c' sounding like 's' - Caesar is pronounced Kaeysar, no Seezer.

Isengard wrote:Eh klee's ee arc ee

However, given that it is not real you could probably pronounce it however you like! I always get stick from my way of saying Leman Russ!

It's real, and used in "modern" churches.

I surprised my Mother-in-law by knowing what a censer was. I'd seen the GW model of a Nurgle plague censer bearer

Ek-leez-ee-ark-y.

Skinnereal wrote:I surprised my Mother-in-law by knowing what a censer was. I'd seen the GW model of a Nurgle plague censer bearer

Who said 40k knowledge couldn't be useful in real life.

Cerebrium wrote:Ek-leez-ee-ark-y.

+1 for me

Isengard wrote:However, given that it is not real you could probably pronounce it however you like! I always get stick from my way of saying Leman Russ!

"Lemon Roose," the way it's supposed to be prounounced, right?

bombboy1252 wrote:The title says it all, I'm usually good with pronouncing things, but this one eludes me.....

Also, since it hasn't been said yet, I pronounce it "ecclesiarchy." ()

Lynata wrote:Who said 40k knowledge couldn't be useful in real life.

I've used beastmen and dark elf models to teach Greek Mythological monsters to sixth graders. Knowledge garnered from 40k can be relevent. After all, which is better for a child's attention span: a picture of a monster in a book? Or a monster that you can hold and see every aspect of.

On topic, Eh Klee See Arc Ee. Man, it would be easier if Dakka allowed the stress marks above the vowels.

ekliziarki

AustonT wrote:Cath-o-lichs

Nice one!

timetowaste85 wrote:I've used beastmen and dark elf models to teach Greek Mythological monsters to sixth graders. Knowledge garnered from 40k can be relevent. After all, which is better for a child's attention span: a picture of a monster in a book? Or a monster that you can hold and see every aspect of.

There should be more teachers like you. Seriously.