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Pronunciation of anything

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Posted 25 August 2006 - 09:24 PM

It's gotta be a scandihoovian sound...

I go for Ja-goot

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Posted 25 August 2006 - 10:07 PM

Is it just me that always thinks of Chaka Khan when I read Y'Ghatan?...It is? ..oh:o (I actually pronounce it like Sir Thursday, but the first syllable being shorter :confused: )

Well according to Kallor I'm getting at least three right.

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Posted 25 August 2006 - 10:31 PM

Rhuu-lad, Jaa-guut, Drij-na, Yeh-Gatan for me.

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Posted 25 August 2006 - 10:44 PM

Jag- utt
Y'- Gatten

Darujhistan?
Darru-jiss-tan

i have argued this with my friend: toe'black-kai (kai as in the begininmng of kite)
or toe'b'kay (kay as in say or pay)

K' Chain K Malee (like parley)

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Posted 25 August 2006 - 10:52 PM

Toe-bla-khai, sounding like high, and K'Chain Che Mall, said like the first syllable in malleable.

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Posted 25 August 2006 - 11:19 PM

Meanas - Mee-an-iss

Adaephon - Uh-day-fon

Lether - Leh-thur (like the "th" in "throw", not "the")

Dryjhna - Rhymes with Bridge-nuh

Y'Ghatan - EE-guh-tan

Jaghut - Juh-goot

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Posted 26 August 2006 - 02:26 AM

Dryjna- I prefer dry-na but dry-jna might be correct

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Posted 26 August 2006 - 06:09 AM

Sir Thursday;109115 said:

I'm undecided between Drij-na and Dri-na (The 'ij' bit of Drij sounds like bridge without the d sound in it)

For Y'Ghatan, it is a corruption of Jhag Odhan, so I pronounce it Yag-at-an.

On that note, what to people prefer for Jhagut - Jag-oot or Jag-ut?

Sir Thursday

Y'Ghatan has always been Ee-guh-tawn to me. And it's Jag-ut. Assuming that the "Jh" doesn't stand for some other phoneme.

I note that I seem to like schaws more than other people.

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Posted 26 August 2006 - 11:20 AM

KCCM- K chain she (as in shay) Malle is in mall a.

Odd i know

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Posted 26 August 2006 - 04:12 PM

tiam;109281 said:

KCCM- K chain she (as in shay) Malle is in mall a.

Odd i know

Not odd at all, as that is obviously the proper way to pronounce it.

The only quibble I have with it is that I use che instead of she, but it's a very very soft ch, and more of an "eh" than an "ay". But I bet if both of us said it, the difference would be very minor.

Now... how many of us put in the appropriate glottal stops for the apostrophes? You know, from Tlan to T'lan, etc.

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Posted 26 August 2006 - 05:33 PM

Sorry i actualy meant che (as in chay not che)

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Posted 29 August 2006 - 05:33 AM

Ok... how do people pronounce Cyniggig? Is it Sin-i-gig, or does the gg stand for some other dipthong?

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Posted 29 August 2006 - 11:56 AM

Is that the correct spelling? I can't remember. Probably as you said, Sin-i-gig, although I suppose you could make a case for Sine-i-gig...

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Posted 29 August 2006 - 02:11 PM

I don't pronounce it

But I would say Sin-ig-gig or probably Sin-i-gig for ease of speech.

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Posted 29 August 2006 - 03:59 PM

Dry-gin-ha
Jag-hut

New ones....

Jhag - 'jag' like jaguar
Mekhar - mech-arr
Tayschrenn - Tae-sheh-renn
Mael - may-el

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Posted 30 August 2006 - 06:27 AM

I waffle on Tayschrenn. I think it should either be umm... Tay-shren (had to think about how to spell that without writing Tayschrenn) or Tas-kren. Since, iirc, they refer to him as Tay, I lean towards the first.