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2013/08/08 02:29:15
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Screamin' Stormboy
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I have heard many a variation of the pronunciation of tyranid. Pronounced like tyrant and tyranny I personally think its tyrant because they are the tyrants causing tyranny not the other way round. What do you think?
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2013/08/08 02:38:02
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Enigmatic Chaos Sorcerer
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Teeranids.
Their name is derived from the first planet the Imperium lost to them. Tyran.
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2013/08/08 02:38:19
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Plummeting Black Templar Thunderhawk Pilot
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I always pronounced it, "TEERaNids. like making opponents cry tears. Never really read it as Tyrant
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2013/08/08 02:40:32
Subject: Re:How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Mutilatin' Mad Dok
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Tyranid is said like
Tear-Uh-N-ID and the I is said as if you were saying If or With Swift
Tearuhnid
That is the propor way you pronounce the word.
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2013/08/08 02:42:32
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine
New Bedford, MA
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Tyrannical tyrants causing titanic tyranny. Now that that is out of my system, I pronounce it like tyranny. I think it is taking tyrants, dropping the ts, and boot-strapping it to the nids part of hominids to "create" a new species.
Looks like I have stumbled on the name of their first victims, Tyran. I start babbling about creating a species name from our viewpoint, and find out the fluff had a planet conveniently named Tyran.
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2013/08/08 02:46:49
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Infiltrating Broodlord
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I pronounce like all the above posters have said and which also the way it was pronounced on DoW 2.
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2013/08/08 02:52:31
Subject: Re:How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Hellish Haemonculus
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Of all the words in 40k which get weird pronunciations, this isn't one I've ever heard differ. Everyone I've ever heard say it, regardless of accent or nationality, has pronounced the 'tyr' in tyranid as though it rhymes with beer and fear.
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2013/08/08 03:36:56
Subject: Re:How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Tea-Kettle of Blood
Adelaide, South Australia
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 Jimsolo wrote:Of all the words in 40k which get weird pronunciations, this isn't one I've ever heard differ. Everyone I've ever heard say it, regardless of accent or nationality, has pronounced the ' tyr' in tyranid as though it rhymes with beer and fear.
Pretty much everyone I know, myself included, pronounces the "Tyran" part the same as "tyran" in tyranny, I've only ever heard people pronounce it "teeranid" in a couple of videos online.
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I have a peanut allergy. It's really inconsiderate.
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2013/08/08 03:46:36
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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 Ironwill13791 wrote:Tyrannical tyrants causing titanic tyranny. Now that that is out of my system, I pronounce it like tyranny. I think it is taking tyrants, dropping the ts, and boot-strapping it to the nids part of hominids to "create" a new species.
Looks like I have stumbled on the name of their first victims, Tyran. I start babbling about creating a species name from our viewpoint, and find out the fluff had a planet conveniently named Tyran.
TEER-ah-Nid.
So named for the Research Station Tyran (TEE-ran), which was the first recorded battle between the Imperium and Hive Fleet Behemoth, the first Hive Fleet to arrive.
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2013/08/08 05:12:06
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Tea-Kettle of Blood
Adelaide, South Australia
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 Psienesis wrote: Ironwill13791 wrote:Tyrannical tyrants causing titanic tyranny. Now that that is out of my system, I pronounce it like tyranny. I think it is taking tyrants, dropping the ts, and boot-strapping it to the nids part of hominids to "create" a new species.
Looks like I have stumbled on the name of their first victims, Tyran. I start babbling about creating a species name from our viewpoint, and find out the fluff had a planet conveniently named Tyran.
TEER-ah-Nid.
So named for the Research Station Tyran (TEE-ran), which was the first recorded battle between the Imperium and Hive Fleet Behemoth, the first Hive Fleet to arrive.
Do we know how Tyran was pronounced or that Tyranid is pronounced the same as Tyran?
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Ailaros wrote:You know what really bugs me? When my opponent, before they show up at the FLGS smears themselves in peanut butter and then makes blood sacrifices to Ashterai by slitting the throat of three male chickens and then smears the spatter pattern into the peanut butter to engrave sacred symbols into their chest and upper arms.
I have a peanut allergy. It's really inconsiderate.
"Long ago in a distant land, I, M'kar, the shape-shifting Master of Chaos, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Grey Knight warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in space and flung him into the Warp, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to real-space, and undo the evil that is Chaos!" |
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2013/08/08 05:18:05
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
New Zealand
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Ty-ran-id
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2013/08/08 06:02:07
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Manhunter
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I pronounce it Bugs...
... Actually I pronounce it with the Tyr sounding like Tear. Others in my area use the tyrant way.
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2013/08/08 06:32:53
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Fixture of Dakka
Temple Prime
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Dawn of war 2 gives the only correct pronounciation.
Tier ah nid.
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2013/08/08 06:33:48
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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Tyranid.
Pyramid.
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2013/08/08 06:45:42
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Elite Tyranid Warrior
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For so long: Tie-ran-idz
Recently: correctly.
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2013/08/08 08:44:42
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Screamin' Stormboy
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This is interesting and ironic because I have never heard anyone say it like what the majority of you have been: tear-ah-nids
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2013/08/08 08:56:42
Subject: Re:How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Always pronounced it Tee-ra-nid, all thanks to DoW2.
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill |
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2013/08/08 09:16:25
Subject: Re:How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Pulsating Possessed Space Marine of Slaanesh
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Tir-ah-nid. As in pyramid.
...maybe it's a New Zealand thing, but that's the only way I've heard it pronounced.
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2013/08/08 09:23:26
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Terrifying Treeman
The Fallen Realm of Umbar
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Teir - a - nid
Oddly enough I've always pronounced 'Tyran' as "Tie - ran" not "Teir - an".
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2013/08/08 09:25:14
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Bush? No, Eldar Ranger
Procrastinating.
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Tih(soft i)-run-ids, as in tyranny, rather than Tie(hard i)-run-ids, as in tyrant.
Screwed up, I know.
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2013/08/08 09:59:24
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Shrieking Guardian Jetbiker
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This....It isn't Tyeranid so why should you pronounce it tear a nid?
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2013/08/08 10:00:57
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Stormin' Stompa
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I pronounce it like the word "pyramid".
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2013/08/08 10:20:17
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
Wiltshire
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I noticed that 90% of people who pronounce it "teer-uh-nid" are American or canadian.
Over here most people say "tih(soft i)-run- ids"
I firmly say it "tie-run- ids"... But then again I pronounce tyranny the same way... Derp
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2013/08/08 10:24:31
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Trigger-Happy Baal Predator Pilot
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As a kid during my first hobby phase I pronounced it as tie ran ids as in tyrant. Now I pronounce it ti ran ids as in tyranny.
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2013/08/08 10:28:04
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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Tactical_Genius wrote:I noticed that 90% of people who pronounce it "teer-uh-nid" are American or canadian.
Over here most people say "tih(soft i)-run- ids"
I firmly say it "tie-run- ids"... But then again I pronounce tyranny the same way... Derp
I do tend to switch between tie-ra-nid and ti-ra-nid,
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Dakka Bingo! By Ouze
"You are the best at flying things"-Kanluwen
"Further proof that Purple is a fething brilliant super villain " -KingCracker
"Purp.. Im pretty sure I have a gun than can reach you...."-Nicorex
"That's not really an apocalypse. That's just Europe."-Grakmar
"almost as good as winning free cake at the tea drinking contest for an Englishman." -Reds8n
Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Equip, Reload. Do violence.
Watch for Gerry. |
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2013/08/08 10:47:12
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Fixture of Dakka
Temple Prime
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Tactical_Genius wrote:I noticed that 90% of people who pronounce it "teer-uh-nid" are American or canadian.
Over here most people say "tih(soft i)-run- ids"
I firmly say it "tie-run- ids"... But then again I pronounce tyranny the same way... Derp
Looking to canon sources like DoW 2 and Space marine as well as the space hulk audiobook the definitive pronounciation is teer uh nid.
Case closed.
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2013/08/08 10:57:01
Subject: Re:How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Chalice-Wielding Sanguinary High Priest
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I see "teer" and "tear" and I think that comes across either as more enforced than the posters intended, or I just say it a lot quicker. I would put it as:
Tih-ra-nid
"Tih" as in "Tih-mmy fell down the well".
Also, I think quite a few people are making the mistake that "tyranny" pronounces the y the same way as "tyrant". It doesn't. Tyranny uses the same "tih" sound I've been using.
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2013/08/08 11:44:02
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Tough-as-Nails Ork Boy
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I always used to say Tie-ran-ids.
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2013/08/08 11:47:01
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Civil War Re-enactor
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This is how I always pronounced it.
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2013/08/08 12:14:05
Subject: How do YOU pronounce Tyranid?
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Raging Ravener
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Nids......
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