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 karlosovic wrote:
I also used to say [ty-ran-id]... but someone pointed out that tyranny is pronounced [ti-ran-i]

Then again tyrant is pronounced [ty-rant].... so now I'm confused

This is why I don't like Warhammer 40.000 English. I prefer tighter, more solid wargames languages, like Warmachine/Hordes Swedish.

 Scipio Africanus wrote:
I have a friend who pronounces paladins pal-ah-dins rather than pal-ad-ins. That gets to me.

Are you saying paladin should rhyme with Aladdin? I think I'm confused on the two pronunciations here...

Oh, my pet peeve is when people call my Gun Drones Shield Drones. They are not Shield Drones. And you can not blame me because you're making that mistake.

Well, as long as your Gun Drones have guns and your Shield Drones don't, that's like a non marine player mistaking a Rhino for a Razorback. Understandable, but also completely their fault.

Most of the ones that drive me nuts are in writing. When people misspell Tigurius it just crawls under my skin and takes a dump. (Tigerius, Tigruris, etc.)

One that is wargaming related, although not necessarily 40k related, is the word 'lose.' Everytime I see someone write a message in tactics saying they need help because they keep loosing games, I want to drive my face through my own keyboard.

Tear-annie? Tear-an-ee? Nope.
Tear-ant? Nope.
Hive Tear-ant? Nope.
Tear-an-a-sore-is-rex? Nope.

TIE-RA-NIDS. As Daniel Bryan would say. YES! YES! YES!



Just having for for those who take it to serious.

Davor wrote:
Tear-annie? Tear-an-ee? Nope. Tear-ah-nee is correct
Tear-ant? Nope.
Hive Tear-ant? Nope.
Tear-an-a-sore-is-rex? Nope.

Tear-ah-nee is correct

TIE-RA-NIDS. As Daniel Bryan would say. YES! YES! YES!



Just having for for those who take it to serious.

I offer you the f-d up world of the english language:

Now if mouse in the plural should be, and is, mice,
Then house in the plural, of course, should be hice,
And grouse should be grice and spouse should be spice
And by the same token should blouse become blice.

And consider the goose with its plural of geese;
Then a double caboose should be called a cabeese,
And noose should be neese and moose should be meese
And if mama’s papoose should be twins, it’s papeese.

Then if one thing is that, while some more is called those,
Then more than one hat, I assume, would be hose,
And gnat would be gnose and pat would be pose,
And likewise the plural of rat would be rose

Logic does not apply here

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
A lot of this stuff is subjective as there's no 'official' way of pronouncing it. For example, I pronounce the Necron Gauss so that it rhymes with 'house', my friend pronounces it so that it rhymes with 'horse'.

Umm. . .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

 Maelstrom808 wrote:

I offer you the f-d up world of the english language:

Now if mouse in the plural should be, and is, mice,
Then house in the plural, of course, should be hice,
And grouse should be grice and spouse should be spice
And by the same token should blouse become blice.

And consider the goose with its plural of geese;
Then a double caboose should be called a cabeese,
And noose should be neese and moose should be meese
And if mama’s papoose should be twins, it’s papeese.

Then if one thing is that, while some more is called those,
Then more than one hat, I assume, would be hose,
And gnat would be gnose and pat would be pose,
And likewise the plural of rat would be rose

Logic does not apply here

Hah, my school library has exactly such a poem about the Dutch language.

I pronounce tyranids: as Teer-a-nids, like tyranny
hive tyrant: as Tie-rant
probably one that does get on other people nerves that i do is tzeentch: as Zeetch I drop the "N" not sure why but it sounds more "right" to me.

 Jimsolo wrote:

Most of the ones that drive me nuts are in writing. When people misspell Tigurius it just crawls under my skin and takes a dump. (Tigerius, Tigruris, etc.)

One that is wargaming related, although not necessarily 40k related, is the word 'lose.' Everytime I see someone write a message in tactics saying they need help because they keep loosing games, I want to drive my face through my own keyboard.

That's a subtle nod there, Jim. Also I meant Paladin so that it rhymes with aladin.

I think you have a lose understanding of the topic at hand and because of your unruly comments we're starting to loose focus on the subject at hand.

A couple more:

Iron being pronounced eye-ron rather than eye-orn. (Iron Hands)

One I heard was Alpha being said Al-pa

There are others, a lot of people call Konrad Curze Konrad Cruise, Omegon is mispronounced omegaon, sanguinius is mispronounced san-gwin-yus instead of sang-win-ee-us.

Roboute Guillaume is pronounced row-boot gwill-ee-awh-m instead of Ro-boot gee-awh-m

Tzeentch tend's to end up as "Ze-ntch".

I'd take issue with the pronunciation of Sanguinius.

The 'e' that gives sanguine it's "rhymes with wine" pronunciation is absent, and therefore "rhymes with whinny-us" is, to my mind, a better fit with Latin pronunciation. I've certainly never heard anyone say it your way, doesn't make it wrong, but it might make it the minority.

 Scipio Africanus wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:

Most of the ones that drive me nuts are in writing. When people misspell Tigurius it just crawls under my skin and takes a dump. (Tigerius, Tigruris, etc.)

One that is wargaming related, although not necessarily 40k related, is the word 'lose.' Everytime I see someone write a message in tactics saying they need help because they keep loosing games, I want to drive my face through my own keyboard.

That's a subtle nod there, Jim. Also I meant Paladin so that it rhymes with aladin.

I think you have a lose understanding of the topic at hand and because of your unruly comments we're starting to loose focus on the subject at hand.

A couple more:

Iron being pronounced eye-ron rather than eye-orn. (Iron Hands)

One I heard was Alpha being said Al-pa

There are others, a lot of people call Konrad Curze Konrad Cruise, Omegon is mispronounced omegaon, sanguinius is mispronounced san-gwin-yus instead of sang-win-ee-us.

Roboute Guillaume is pronounced row-boot gwill-ee-awh-m instead of Ro-boot gee-awh-m

I pronounce Sanguinius as "San-gwin-ee-us" if you say "Sang-win-ee-us" it sound like you have a speech impediment.

I'll go a step further. if you say "Sang-win-ee-us" as you say. then by that account you then have to pronounce Sanguinary Guard as "Sang-win-ery" and that sounds like some sort of toilet manufacturer. And also every single Audio book I have heard the Voice actor has allways pronounced it as "San-gwin-ee-us". If they did pronounce it as "Sang-win-ee-us" I would think that Heavy entertainment, and Black Library had employed Ceaser from Life of Brian to read the book.

 Scipio Africanus wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:

Most of the ones that drive me nuts are in writing. When people misspell Tigurius it just crawls under my skin and takes a dump. (Tigerius, Tigruris, etc.)

One that is wargaming related, although not necessarily 40k related, is the word 'lose.' Everytime I see someone write a message in tactics saying they need help because they keep loosing games, I want to drive my face through my own keyboard.

That's a subtle nod there, Jim. Also I meant Paladin so that it rhymes with aladin.

I think you have a lose understanding of the topic at hand and because of your unruly comments we're starting to loose focus on the subject at hand.

A couple more:

Iron being pronounced eye-ron rather than eye-orn. (Iron Hands)

One I heard was Alpha being said Al-pa

There are others, a lot of people call Konrad Curze Konrad Cruise, Omegon is mispronounced omegaon, sanguinius is mispronounced san-gwin-yus instead of sang-win-ee-us.

Roboute Guillaume is pronounced row-boot gwill-ee-awh-m instead of Ro-boot gee-awh-m

I pronounce paladin as pal-ah-din and have never in my 20 years on this planet heard it pronounced any other way. I say Lay-mon Russ, Zen-tch, san-gwin-yus, Row-boo Gee-ah-mon, eye-ron, tear-ah-nids, and probably a couple others no one agrees with me on. Shoot me.

How have we got to page 4 with no mention of that firm family favourite, Rouge Trader

For when you absolutely positively need to buy some serious red, accept no substitutes

 Ignatius wrote:

 Scipio Africanus wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:

Most of the ones that drive me nuts are in writing. When people misspell Tigurius it just crawls under my skin and takes a dump. (Tigerius, Tigruris, etc.)

One that is wargaming related, although not necessarily 40k related, is the word 'lose.' Everytime I see someone write a message in tactics saying they need help because they keep loosing games, I want to drive my face through my own keyboard.

That's a subtle nod there, Jim. Also I meant Paladin so that it rhymes with aladin.

I think you have a lose understanding of the topic at hand and because of your unruly comments we're starting to loose focus on the subject at hand.

A couple more:

Iron being pronounced eye-ron rather than eye-orn. (Iron Hands)

One I heard was Alpha being said Al-pa

There are others, a lot of people call Konrad Curze Konrad Cruise, Omegon is mispronounced omegaon, sanguinius is mispronounced san-gwin-yus instead of sang-win-ee-us.

Roboute Guillaume is pronounced row-boot gwill-ee-awh-m instead of Ro-boot gee-awh-m

I pronounce paladin as pal-ah-din and have never in my 20 years on this planet heard it pronounced any other way. I say Lay-mon Russ, Zen-tch, san-gwin-yus, Row-boo Gee-ah-mon, eye-ron, tear-ah-nids, and probably a couple others no one agrees with me on. Shoot me.

Okay, if you want me to.
*BLAM*

Hormagomits. They're hormagaunts.

 Scipio Africanus wrote:

That's a subtle nod there, Jim. Also I meant Paladin so that it rhymes with aladin.

LOL, I completely[u] forgot about your character post in that article you wrote. Sorry, wasn't trying to slam on you. (You had a typo at the top of his section. All the other uses were spelled right, so you obviously know how to do it.) I was more thinking about the nine billion posts I've seen about Tigurius since the new 'dex has dropped, and how it seems more common to misspell his name than to get it right.

I think you have a lose understanding of the topic at hand and because of your unruly comments we're starting to loose focus on the subject at hand.

I think I just chewed two of my own fingers off...

 Scipio Africanus wrote:


Roboute Guillaume is pronounced row-boot gwill-ee-awh-m instead of Ro-boot gee-awh-m

I'ts "Roboute Guilliman" though.

This thread overall is giving me cancer! xD

SlaveToDorkness wrote:One that gets me is "Flying Circus" for any army that includes lots of Flyers or FMCs. The original army named that was Harlequins (Clowns) in Falcons (Flying things). That's where it comes from. Tons of FMCs doesn't equal "Flying Circus" at all.

Yes, I am petty.

It's not from Monty Python's Flying Circus?

McNinja wrote:I'm also not a fan of the alternate names of the various Space Marines. I've heard them so many times already it's simply gotten annoying.

This! I relate it to the video game Need for Speed: Underground where it seems they did a [Find - Replace] ALL (as in EVERY single) reference to money/cash/income/winning and replaced them with the word "Bank"..... the amount of Try-Hard-but-fail made me want to hurt someone

Flinty wrote:How have we got to page 4 with no mention of that firm family favourite, Rouge Trader

For when you absolutely positively need to buy some serious red, accept no substitutes

ahaha!! Did you play WoW?! So many dungeon groups looking for something red

Davor wrote:
Tear-annie? Tear-an-ee? Nope.
Tear-ant? Nope.
Hive Tear-ant? Nope.
Tear-an-a-sore-is-rex? Nope..

Two of those are incorrect. The other two are correct.


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 Scipio Africanus wrote:
sanguinius is mispronounced san-gwin-yus instead of sang-win-ee-us.

Uh, that should be pronounced 'san-gwin-yus'.

Davor wrote:
Tear-an-a-sore-is-rex? Nope.

You don't say Tyre-annosaurus, do you?

My own pet peeve is when people pronounce Tzeentch as Tzench... there is another e and t in there, folks.

However I have my own problems... I often say Arbrites insteat of Arbites and often say Termagaunts and Hormagants... damn Tyranids...

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
My own pet peeve is when people pronounce Tzeentch as Tzench... there is another e and t in there, folks.

However I have my own problems... I often say Arbrites insteat of Arbites and often say Termagaunts and Hormagants... damn Tyranids...

See when I here Tzeentch pronounced with a longer ee sound, all i hear is this guy

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
My own pet peeve is when people pronounce Tzeentch as Tzench... there is another e and t in there, folks.

However I have my own problems... I often say Arbrites insteat of Arbites and often say Termagaunts and Hormagants... damn Tyranids...

Isn't the T silent? I always pronounced it Zeentch.

I was mainly talking about the second t. The first t is silent, though (at least, I believe it is)

I typed it in the second one so I would have to explain WHICH t I meant.

so, instead of [Zeentch] they say [Zench]

oh.. also when people say [Zinch] I've only heard 1 person say it like that but god it annoys me more thanin should...

 karlosovic wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:One that gets me is "Flying Circus" for any army that includes lots of Flyers or FMCs. The original army named that was Harlequins (Clowns) in Falcons (Flying things). That's where it comes from. Tons of FMCs doesn't equal "Flying Circus" at all.

Yes, I am petty.

It's not from Monty Python's Flying Circus?

Pussy Galore's Flying Circus?

Back in 3rd, I played with a Tau player who would say "pining test" instead of "pinning test."

Like "pining for the fjords."

Pining.

Everyone in my local gaming group still says "pining test" to this day, to ceaselessly mock him.

I heard Allan Merritt pronounce Roboute Guilliman (or however you spell it) as Roe-boot-ah Jew-la-min. I guess that's the correct way.

 Scipio Africanus wrote:
I have a friend who pronounces paladins pal-ah-dins rather than pal-ad-ins. That gets to me.

Umm... Paladin is pronounced pal-uh-din, not pal-ad-ins.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
I was mainly talking about the second t. The first t is silent, though (at least, I believe it is)

I typed it in the second one so I would have to explain WHICH t I meant.

so, instead of [Zeentch] they say [Zench]

oh.. also when people say [Zinch] I've only heard 1 person say it like that but god it annoys me more thanin should...

There was a whole thread about the correct pronouncation of Tzeentch a while back.
The correct pronouncation is: zI:ntʃ
Tz sounds like tz in Tzar, which means that the first t is silent.
ee sounds like ea in tea
n is just n
the second t is not silent.
ch sounds ch in church.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 Scipio Africanus wrote:


Roboute Guillaume is pronounced row-boot gwill-ee-awh-m instead of Ro-boot gee-awh-m

I'ts "Roboute Guilliman" though.

I've always gone with Rowboat Gilligan, personally.

On a serious note, I generally go for a vaguely French pronunciation - Row-boot Gee-ya-min.