How should I pronounce Tiefling?

[Bayuer]

Is this pronounced Teefling like in Thief or Tahyfling like in Tie?

 

[Foxman]

Is this pronounced Teefling like in Thief or Tahyfling like in Tie?

Teefling

Listen to it pronounced by WotC here:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UqFPujRZWo]YouTube - D&D 4th Edition: Tiefling & the Gnome[/ame]

 

[Rafe]

Teefling

Yeah, that's how I've always said it. Forgot there was a WotC animation with it.

 

[Foxman]

Also check out the D&D podcast Ep. 29

D&D Podcast: Episode 29 (November 2008)

@ 21:05 Rabbi asks: “How do you pronounce the following words: githyanki, otyugh, Sehanine, falchion, reagent, treant, eladrin?” (Bonus words: drow, bulette)

 

[Danceofmasks]

Yeah, but those pronunciations have got to be wrong because they're American!

 

[Kordeth]

It rhymes with fnord.

 

[Goblyns Hoard]

For anyone interested - tief (pronounced to rhyme with (coral) reef) is german for deep, so if you use that as the etymology then they are the deeplings.

 

[DEFCON 1]

@ 21:05 Rabbi asks: “How do you pronounce the following words: githyanki, otyugh, Sehanine, falchion, reagent, treant, eladrin?” (Bonus words: drow, bulette)

I dunno what their answers were for this, but my pronounciations have always been:

GITH-yankee
AUGH-teh-yug
see-HA-neen
FAL-she-yun
REE-agent
TRAY-aunt
eh-LAA-drin
drow (rhymes with plow)
BULL-et (same as the gun ammo)

I'd be curious as to how many of mine are technically "correct". I think my biggest perpetual mis-pronounciation is I always say "CHIM-er-ah", as opposed to some of my friends insisting it's pronounced "ky-MARE-ah".

 

[Cam Banks]

I'd be curious as to how many of mine are technically "correct". I think my biggest perpetual mis-pronounciation is I always say "CHIM-er-ah", as opposed to some of my friends insisting it's pronounced "ky-MARE-ah".

I think in general you seem to be placing the emphasis on the first syllable when it's usually the second, but that's a common thing. Chimera really is pronounced ky-MARE-uh, but it looks as if it should be pronounced CHIM-er-ah. That's pretty much why people mispronounce game words, and if nobody corrects them, they don't have any reason to say it any other way.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Foxman]

Bulette - I pronounce it Landshark.