How should I pronounce Tiefling?
Foxman
First Post
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
First Post
Yeah, that's how I've always said it. Forgot there was a WotC animation with it.
Foxman
First Post
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)
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
First Post
Yeah, but those pronunciations have got to be wrong because they're American!
Goblyns Hoard
First Post
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.
I dunno what their answers were for this, but my pronounciations have always been:@ 21:05 Rabbi asks: “How do you pronounce the following words: githyanki, otyugh, Sehanine, falchion, reagent, treant, eladrin?” (Bonus words: drow, bulette)
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
Adventurer
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
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