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I always say it in full, though I know many who say "gee dubs".

Correctly.

it varies on circumstance and who I'm talking to, if I'm talking about Mini's to a friend for example I might say "I snagged some retributor armor from the local Gee double U" if I'm say discussing something with a parent I'll proably say Games workshop such as "if you think my mini's are well painted dad you should swing by the Games Workshop store and look at whats on display there, makes me look like an amatur"

"Warhams".

The local store has been rebranded to "Warhammer".

In Poland we say ''Genialny Wydawca'' which can be translated as ''Brilliant Publisher''.

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No no no, it’s Tih-rAH-niDs!

Honestly never heard "gee dubs". Games Workshop or GW are how I've spoken of and heard them mentioned. Or just "The Warhammer store" or such. In general for most people Games Workshop and Warhammer are interchangeable names.





Also Ty-ran-nids
Tyrannical Tyrant Tyranids

 Overread wrote:
Also Ty-ran-nids
Tyrannical Tyrant Tyranids

From page 10 of the December 2019 White Dwarf:

Tyranids is ‘Tih-ruh-nidz’ (sorry, Robin). I get that there’s a strong argument for Tie-ran-ids, but Jes Goodwin says it the first way, and it’s his digestion pool we Tyranid players are getting our gribblies from in the first place.

I mean he's living in the north - he can't be expected to have proper pronunciation!

surely the correct oop north version is T'yranids

Games Workshop or GW but with the italian pronunciation ("Gee Woo").

Hmmmm... before I got better informed I always thought GW stood for "Gimme ur Wallet"

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
surely the correct oop north version is T'yranids

Of the options in the poll, I've used all of them interchangeably at some point.

Mine might be the most radically different. Slovenian pronunciation of G-W, which is like the g in get and the v in very

And when speaking "english" we usually say gee wee.

 Overread wrote:
Also Ty-ran-nids
Tyrannical Tyrant Tyranids

I might be missing that this is a joke but tyrannical and tyrant are not pronounced the same - tih-rannical and tie-rant. I always pronounced it Tih-ranids - that’s how it looked like it would sound and that’s what the London GW staff called them when I bought the 2nd Ed codex.

GeeDubyah (like the second President Bush)

I've used all of "Gee Dubs", "Gee Dubya", "Gee Double-You", "Games Workshop", and "Warhammer" (when referring to the shop / game systems) pretty frequently, depending on who I'm talking to, the context, and maybe a couple of other minor factors I can't think of off the top of my head.

I was gonna say Gee-Double-U but realized I say Gee-Dubya like Dubya Bush.

I’m honestly surprised there are more people who picked “Gee-Double-You” over “Gee-Dubs.” I use the former too, but it felt like the awkward middle ground between the “normal” name and the lingo term of the latter.

I may be showing my age if I say "Throatwarbler Mangrove"...

 Momotaro wrote:
I may be showing my age if I say "Throatwarbler Mangrove"...

Only if you don't pronounce it 'Raymond Luxury Yacht.'


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 Ghaz wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Also Ty-ran-nids
Tyrannical Tyrant Tyranids

From page 10 of the December 2019 White Dwarf:

Tyranids is ‘Tih-ruh-nidz’ (sorry, Robin). I get that there’s a strong argument for Tie-ran-ids, but Jes Goodwin says it the first way, and it’s his digestion pool we Tyranid players are getting our gribblies from in the first place.

Tyr-a-nids.

And mostly GW. 'G Dubs' sounds like something out of a bad skate-rat movie from the 90s.

James Workshop, like '.gif'

Gaimsse ouo'R'kshoppe

Because I'm french obiously, so it's with french 'R' and heavy french accent. But I believe it's still quite close to the original.
Or maybe not...

Most of the times "Ge Weh", so Gee Doubleju but in German.