[Cold Iron]

Tist touches Tiste's tits, tat surprises!

[tiam]

Tiste andii-tee stay an die

[doolally2au]

The Tiste eat spiced mice on rice. Nice!

[Serrat]

Well, I always thought it was Tis-tay on-dee-eye, the first word of course was a wide-eyed stupid guess, the later is more, uh, romanesque. As the double "i" appears only in certain roman-latin names(as far as I know) such as Julii, which is pronounced joo-lee-eye. Just my thoughts, but I thought they were reasonable.

(same with Letherii, it is the people of Lether, and they seem kinda romanesque so... roman-latin pronunciation)

Bring it on Hetan, I wanna see how you prove me wrong this time .

[Cold Iron]

Cummon, someone's gotta get where I got the rhyming patern I used above... anyone??

[Kallor]

@serrat...(letherii) le-ther-ree, (lether) leather...not official of course, but it is how SE and I pronounce it in conversation

[Serrat]

@Kallor, alright then, that's pretty official for being not official. I kinda liked my way though .

[cauthon]

I always figured it was Tee-stuh Andi-i. But I may be biased ...

[SiriusL]

TEE-stay ANdee eye, or perhaps "AHNdee eye." Either way, the "ii" is "ee eye", as it Yipee eye eh(?).

And for the record, I think Anomander Rake is a really cool name. Of course, so are Whiskeyjack and Tattersail.

Now, how about K'Chain Che'Maille? Wait, is that spoiler?

[rlfcl]

im unsure about how to pronounce Tiste (whether it's Tist-ee, or Tist-eh), but the Andii part would be pronounced Andi-i, with the two i's pronounced hard, like an "ee" sound (so, And-ee-ee). you see that spelling/pronounciation in old roman words all the time, i.e. socii, triarii, etc.

but then again it doesnt really matter because you're reading it in your head!

[rlfcl]

/Drihj/h-na

/Sha/-eek

[Serrat]

@SiriusL
I can't imagine a name constituting a spoiler. My best run at that mouthful is something like "keh-CHAIN che-MAH-lay". I hate to leave letters unpronounced, makes them seem useless.

Also, I agree, Anomander Rake is just about the coolest name for that type of character I have ever heard. I can't even imagine emulating the feeling I get when I read that name. Cheers to SE for creating it.

And cheers to Sirius for agreeing with my pronunciation.

@rlfcl
I've always heard the old roman suffix "ii" pronounced with the first "i" hard and the second like "eye". Of course thats what I have heard so that doesn't constitute much.

[SiriusL]

Serrat said:

@SiriusL
I can't imagine a name constituting a spoiler. My best run at that mouthful is something like "keh-CHAIN che-MAH-lay". I hate to leave letters unpronounced, makes them seem useless.

Mmm...makes me hungry for Mexican food. "I'll have two K'Chain Che'Mailles with green salsa."

Anyway, I'm with on the silent letters, though I never thought to pronounce that last "e" in Maille. I guess I was thinking "chainmail", with some extra sounds added in.

Regarding Anomander, I know. I had a read it a few times the first time I saw it, and now it flows like it's my son's name. Too bad we don't plan on having more kids... :eek:

[Keruli]

It happens a lot that I fall back on swedish pronounciation of wierd names, and this is the case with Tiste Andii...

I say: Tis-teh An-dee

Are there any spelling rules that says that double i is pronounced ee-eye? Or is it just that you read it separately as Andi and then i. Any word in the english language that has double i for that matter?
I'm not gonna change, I'm just curious.

In swedish, Andi and Andii is pronounced exactly the same. The sound of i doesn't change read separately and in Andi. But Andii looks much cooler of course.

[rlfcl]

Keruli said:

It happens a lot that I fall back on swedish pronounciation of wierd names, and this is the case with Tiste Andii...

I say: Tis-teh An-dee

Are there any spelling rules that says that double i is pronounced ee-eye? Or is it just that you read it separately as Andi and then i. Any word in the english language that has double i for that matter?
I'm not gonna change, I'm just curious.

In swedish, Andi and Andii is pronounced exactly the same. The sound of i doesn't change read separately and in Andi. But Andii looks much cooler of course.

the reason i pronounce it as ee-ee (two hard i's), is because that's how i've learned to pronounce roman words with similar spellings in class (im a classical studies major). such as socii (soke-ee-ee) and triarii (triar-ee-ee). my teacher for most of these classes is german though so maybe that's just how he pronounces those words.

[fortyseven]

Patch said how to pronounce Tiste Andii

[Keruli]

Thanks for the input, rlfcl.

fortyseven said:

Patch said how to pronounce Tiste Andii

Oh right, I didn't read through the whole thread before posting. I'm still going to keep saying it my way, of course.