D&D 5E How to pronounce Artificer

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Generally I vary between "ar-TIFF-i-sir" or "ARR-ti-fi-sir", but honestly?

Tomato, tomato.

 

[MoonSong]

I voted arTIficer, even though I pronounce it closer to ARtificer. But I pronounce it UHRtuhfuhsuhr so I voted it that way?

 

[Bacon Bits]

Exactly like "artifice" but with an "er" at the end, which is exactly how it's spelled.

Yes, I know there's another pronunciation in the dictionary. The dictionary is wrong. Usage trumps the dictionary, and I've never heard anyone pronounce it any differently.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Exactly like "artifice" but with an "er" at the end, which is exactly how it's spelled.

Yes, I know there's another pronunciation in the dictionary. The dictionary is wrong. Usage trumps the dictionary, and I've never heard anyone pronounce it any differently.

The dictionary is usually based on usage, so you can generally be certain that even if you’ve never heard the dictionary pronunciation, other people very much have.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Except there is nothing odd at all about ART-if-is-er.

It's rare to have three unstressed syllables in a row. It's why we have SAX-a-phone but sax-OPH-on-ist (and Homer Simpson's SAX-a-ma-PHONE)

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It's rare to have three unstressed syllables in a row. It's why we have SAX-a-phone but sax-OPH-on-ist (and Homer Simpson's SAX-a-ma-PHONE)

Okay.

 

[Kobold Stew]

For me, emphasis on the second syllable... ar-TIFF-i-cer. The same way the emphasis is on the second syllable in 'pho-TOG-gra-fir' (photographer) 'or 'gee-ALL-o-gist' (geologist).

Most four syllable words of this sort-- occupations or the people who perform those occupations-- always seem to put the rising emphasis on the second syllable:

Biographer
Geometry
Psychology
Optometrist
Etcetera

If it's three syllables then it falls on the first (CHEM-istry, DENT-istry) and five syllables falls on the first & third (OPH-thal-MOL-o-gist, AR-chae-OL-o-gy).

Yes! (though technically the stress is measured from the end, which is why all of them have it on the antepenult, the third from last.)

 

[DEFCON 1]

Yes! (though technically the stress is measured from the end, which is why all of them have it on the antepenult, the third from last.)

I only wish I could measure my stress from when it ended, rather from when it began.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

The dictionary is usually based on usage, so you can generally be certain that even if you’ve never heard the dictionary pronunciation, other people very much have.

In this case the dictionary, however, is likely based on historic usage of a now archaic term, rather then on actual current usage by people who have appropriated that archaic term for a roleplaying game.

 

[Deset Gled]

ART-ti-fac-ter.

Like artifact + er. As in "The party Artifacter made a expecially deadly weapon out of barb wire. It had the power of nucular ordinance, but it was ultimately mute because the BBEG excaped through the fourier."