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I've always thought abbaddon name is a bad pun for his character, A - bad - un.

Un in British slang is one, so if some one is bad you say you are a bad un.

I also pronounce catachans the first way, and as a Brit I feel this is the way it was intended.

For Abaddon, Wikipedia covers the pronunciation of the biblical Angel, Abaddon.

Always pronounced them as;

Catachan = Cat-ah-chan

Abdaddon = A-bad-un

A - ba - don

Cat - a - chan.

I feel the clue is in the name...

 Still Standing wrote:
A - ba - don

Cat - a - chan.

I feel the clue is in the name...

A-ba-don sounds right, like Mem-non, and Meh-fist-on

Cat-a-chon, like station.

Apparently, according to GW, Catachan is pronounced KAT-a-kan which is pretty stupid - why have the "ch"?

a-BAD-dun

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Apparently, according to GW, Catachan is pronounced KAT-a-kan which is pretty stupid - why have the "ch"?

Actually I prefer it that way and since when did ch have to make that sound.

Anchor, character, cholera, choir, echo, monarch, orchestra, scheme, architect etc. etc. etc.

I always thought Catachan was something like Kat-uh-chin, strong "K" sound for the first C into an "uh" like "duhh" and then chan like chin because I've seen words that spelled like that and sounded like that but I can't think of any other examples for it.

I agree with Eldercaveman about the pun thing on Abaddon.

Dudes you have audiobooks you know?

 DestructerPeach wrote:
I've primarily heard two distinct methods of pronouncing Catachan/Catachans.


2. AB-uh-DAWN. AB as in a single abdominal muscle and DAWN as in the the word dawn lol.

This is how I say it

I always say Cat-a-chan (rhymes with Jackie Chan) but I've read that it's supposed to be Cat-a-KAN.

Abbadon's name comes from the Biblical fallen angel, as stated above, it's not really a pun on "A bad 'un" I don't think. I pronounce it the same way I'd pronounce "Abandon", but obviously without the N.

Here's another one for you- How do you say "Cegorach"?
I think of it as KEH-JAW-RAK, but usually I just say "The Laughing God" to avoid confusion!

GW likes to say Catachan with the C's making a K sound.

Kat-a-KAN.
It kinda makes sense once you look at other words with the Ch making a K. Character, Choir, etc.

I always said Abbadon like Ab-ba-dawn. Don't know how GW says it

One of the words I can never pronounce though is ecclesiarchy

Catachan is pronounced jungle fighters. Abbaddon is pronounced destruction.

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
Catachan is pronounced jungle fighters. Abbaddon is pronounced destruction.

Correction, Abbaddon is pronounced failure

Abaddon, in the Dawn of War 2 cutscene, is pronounced A-buh-dawn.That's also how I've always pronounced it and I believe Dan Abnett has pronounced it that way in interviews. I've always pronounced Catachan like Kat-uh-kan.

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I'd like to think that there's no one "true" pronunciation of these names. Like now, "in the far future" (aside from there being only war) there's probably a hundred different accepted ways to pronounce some words.

A Cthonian might pronounce Abbadon's name differently from a Terran, or a Fenrisian, to say the least.

poh-tay-toh poh-tah-toh.