How do you pronounce "dweomer"?

[A'koss]

I remember seeing this question before years ago and the correct way is Dwee-mer, the "o" being silent.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Dwee-oh-murr. Only because that's the way it's SPELLED, and who the hell ever HEARD this word in use before they read it to actually know any better? It doesn't even appear in any but the fattest, oldest dictionaries. I may have actually thought it was even made up for a long time. I know I never heard anybody use it in audible speech until maybe 2 years ago - which was probably about the time I'd actually read a statement from someone that suggested it might NOT be pronounced the way it's spelled.

 

[Nifft]

I go between DWEE-mer and DWEE-oh-mur, depending on the specific NPC accent I'm faking at the time

-- N

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I promounce it the way Mirriam-Webster's says it the correct way: dwee-oh-mer.

 

[Zander]

I should throw in my 2 cp's worth as I started this...

Rightly or wrongly, I pronounce "Beowulf" bay-oh-woolf", "Eomer" ay-oh-mer and "Eowyn" ay-oh-win. For the sake of consistency, I pronounce "dweomer" dway-oh-mer. In all four cases, the ay is quick and soft flowing into the oh phoneme, so that ay-oh is almost a diphthong. YMMV

 

[DestroyYouAlot]

Rightly or wrongly, I pronounce "Beowulf" bay-oh-woolf", "Eomer" ay-oh-mer and "Eowyn" ay-oh-win. For the sake of consistency, I pronounce "dweomer" dway-oh-mer. In all four cases, the ay is quick and soft flowing into the oh phoneme, so that ay-oh is almost a diphthong. YMMV

What he said.

Now, about that gnoll...

 

[mythusmage]

What he said.

Now, about that gnoll...

That goes back aways. Seems one of the critters got hisself kilt, then animated by an evil priest. But before the animation happened the poor fellow was buried under a stream bed, and over the years, remarkably enough, his flesh became fossilized.

Anyway, while on a mission for his master the fossilzed zombie gnoll got zapped by a Stone to Mud. He managed to "survive" somehow, and in due time the mud dried and became dirt.

He later accompanied his master on another job, and on the way there they passed through a meadow in seed. Some of the grain landed on the zombie's dirt and managed to sprout. In due time the chap was covered in a most unusual lawn. And that is the origin of the grassy gnoll.

 

[The Sigil]

I had to say it aloud to myself a few times to figure out how I say it... and danged if I have a weird way of doing so.

The "dw" at the beginning I pronounce softly - kind of like the "dw" leading "dwarf" but with a little bit of a "j" sound mixed in. Kind of a "dzhw" sound (or if you know Hungarian, a "gy" in that language).

The eo gets turned into an "o" with an umlaut... kind of halfway between an "e" and an "o" that sounds to the uncivilized American ear like an "uh."

The last syllable is "mer" as in "mermaid," of course.

The closest option to "dzhwömer" above was "dwemmer" even if that doesn't sound close to the way I actually say it.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

dwee-oh-mur

 

[Sejs]

Like "bow".


...wait, wrong discussion.

I pronounce it dwee-oh-mer. When I have to say it. Which is not often, as I avoid it when possible. It is a clumsy, stumbling ass of a word. Fits with normal parlance like gravel fits in a meringue.