Pathfinder 1E Golarion Pronunciation of Drow

[gamerprinter]

This is a humor thread, I was just kidding...

However, you wouldn't necessarily be too far off with my hometown... ever see the movie, Nothing but Trouble, starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aydroyd, and John Candy.

Although an extreme parady, its based on an adventure when Dan Aykroyd was a young comedian on Second City Chicago. He and some friends from the show rented a limo and took a country drive on US Route 6. After entering LaSalle County, between Seneca and Marseilles (the towns next to Ottawa), he got pulled over by local deputies for speeding, having small possession of cocaine was given the third degree, not allowed to contact their attorney and spending the weekend in jail.

Seneca is largely an entire village from Arkansas that relocated to Illinois following a Dupont Explosives factory move here during the depression. So its said the genetic pool in Seneca is so shallow you can't get your feet wet.

At least I wasn't born in the area, but moved here when I was 7, so my genetics are unique here. Plus I have family in Alabama too!

No offense intended - it was supposed to be tongue and cheek.

GP

 

[Velocinox]

This is a humor thread, I was just kidding...

However, you wouldn't necessarily be too far off with my hometown... ever see the movie, Nothing but Trouble, starring Chevy Chase, Dan Akroid, and John Candy.

Although an extreme parady, its based on an adventure when Dan Akroid was a young comedian on Second City Chicago. He and some friends from the show rented a limo and took a country drive on US Route 6. After entering LaSalle County, between Seneca and Marseilles (the towns next to Ottawa), he got pulled over by local deputies for speeding, having small possession of cocaine was given the third degree, not allowed to contact their attorney and spending the weekend in jail.

Seneca is largely an entire village from Arkansas that relocated to Illinois following a Dupont Explosives factory move here during the depression. So its said the genetic pool in Seneca is so shallow you can't get your feet wet.

At least I wasn't born in the area, but moved here when I was 7, so my genetics are unique here.

No offense intended - it was supposed to be tongue and cheek.

GP

Obviously I was wrong. I'll edit out all references to Ottawa Illinois in future campaigns.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Now I'm really confused. All this time, I've been pronouncing it SHAR-day.

Ninja'd, please!

(FWIW, Drow & cow rhyme when I say it.)

 

[gamerprinter]

Ninja'd, please!

(FWIW, Drow & cow rhyme when I say it.)

Except when you say it, 'cow' isn't supposed to sound like 'koh', so you must be mispronouncing that word too!

GP

 

[Stormonu]

Drow is like a Potato

 

[jonesy]

Drow is like a Potato

You say Dro-eh-oh, I say Dro-ah-oh
Oh, let's call the whole thing off
Oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part and oh
If we ever part, that would break my heart

 

[Set]

You're going with the guy who misspelled the Demon Queen of Spiders?

That may have been my fault. I met him once, and he showed me a bit of typewritten manuscript (in a comic shop in Milford, IIRC, of all places) and my *brilliant* advice was that TSR might not approve of him using Lolth.

Seeing that same scene years later in a best-selling book that I'd bought was a bit of a 'doh' moment.

Or maybe it was just a typo, and setting it in a world with Ffolke and Lleira, he ran with it. Who knows.

 

[Mr Baron]

Bow

Yup; we actually clarified this in one of the Second Darkness adventures.

Drow does indeed rhyme with "bow."

too funny....