How to pronounce Tzeentch

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**Sir Arun**

My mates and I always had trouble with this one. Any ideas?

**SharkoutofWata**

Zen-ch

**Mad_Proctologist**

Drop the "i" in its, attach to eench
"ts" + "eench"

**ThePrimordial**

Seench

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Seench

**Hollismason**

Zeen - Cha

**sarpedons-right-hand**

As it's spelled but drop the 'T'. So, 'Zeentch.. I think...

**calamarialldayerrday**

It's Tzeentch.

Think of any word that ends in "ts", and drop the bit before, and add in "eentch."

**EVIL INC**

This comes up every other month or so.
I always said it
Tzeen-tick
I'm sure not correct but its how I started back in the 80s and dont feel like changing.
Tzeentch loves the change and variety anyway I'm sure. lol

**grendel083**

T-zeen-ch

Don't think that first t is silent.

**flamingwalnut**

The reason this always comes up is that each thread has several answers. lol

I always pronounce it Zeench.

**Verviedi**

Zeneech

**Hollismason**

tch makes the Cha sound.

**Drk_Oblitr8r**

Teh-zin-eh-tetch

**Nightlord1987**

I would always say ten-ch, but everyone here says zeen-ch.

Same with slaanesh. I would aways say slay-nesh. But others say slaan-nesh

**jreilly89**

Zeench.

**SisterSydney**

Irving.

**Wayniac**

"Ts-een-ch"

**TheCustomLime**

Zeench.

**Quickjager**

He truly is a master of change. Even his name has a thousand forms.

**Tigramans**

[zi:ntʃ]

**Yak9UT**

I pronounce it the way its pronounced in Dawn of WAR.

Being that its the only official source I've seen for how its pronouced in 40k

**Bellzo**

Zeeeeeeeeench

**Furyou Miko**

Tzin-tch.

Tzi like Sun Tzu, but with ee instead of oo

Tch like a disparaging noise at something amusing.. A hard 'ch' sound with a click at the front made by the 't' sound with your tongue behind your upper front teeth.

**Krellnus**

Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:
Teh-zin-eh-tetch

Gah beat me to it.

**The Shadow**

I pronounce it with a silent 'T', so, 'Zeench'.

**vipoid**

Yak9UT wrote:
I pronounce it the way its pronounced in Dawn of WAR.

Being that its the only official source I've seen for how its pronouced in 40k

That's how I pronounce it too.

However, I do worry about accuracy when the same series also brought us this:

SPESS MEHREENS!

**NoiseMarine with Tinnitus**

He is the Changer of Ways so common pronunciation does not apply - he is actually called Harold Ramsbottom.

**Cry_of_the_Wind**

grendel083 wrote:
T-zeen-ch

Don't think that first t is silent.

Ha Ha are you from Yorkshire just like me!
There is an inside joke here folks.
When it is written T' (insert something here to do with Yorkshire usually pit) and its lampooning the greatest dialect on earth.
The T' is just a silent pause. Imagine being constipated and then saying something.
Now I have let the cat out of the bay I better go hide in T 'pit.

I think it is:

zench

**Ashiraya**

Zeentch.

**Isengard**

I say it with a clear but short T at the start with a kind of glottal stop then zeentch afterwards, so I guess T'zeentch.