D&D General Another D&D pronunciation question - this one's for Grognards

[Alzrius]

I love planescape. But I refuse to use the hard g. It sounds ridiculous to me

I remember hearing it pronounced with the hard "g" in the audio CD that came included with A Player's Primer to the Outlands (affiliate link) and raising my eyebrows. But it wasn't a mispronunciation; there was a bit of in-character marginalia in another Planescape book (I can't recall which one) that had someone saying (paraphrasing here) "you're under arrest for pronouncing our beloved Sigil as if it were 'Sijil.'"

 

[Zsong]

I remember hearing it pronounced with the hard "g" in the audio CD that came included with A Player's Primer to the Outlands (affiliate link) and raising my eyebrows. But it wasn't a mispronunciation; there was a bit of in-character marginalia in another Planescape book that had someone saying (paraphrasing here) "you're under arrest for pronouncing our beloved Sigil as if it were 'Sijil.'"

Never!!!

 

[el-remmen]

It might be spelled "G-R-O-G-N-A-R-D" but it is pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove."

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I have never heard it pronounced it according to the original French. Not even by my brother, who tends to be a snob about that sort of thing.

 

[el-remmen]

Also pretty sure "Bulette" is pronounced "Land-Shark."

 

[Nikosandros]

I've always pronounced as in French. It never occurred to me to use the different version, but English is not my native language.

 

[Burnside]

I assumed all the consonants are pronounced, in keeping with traditional British contempt for all French pronunciation of all French words. See also valet, marquis.

 

[Morrus]

I assumed all the consonants are pronounced, in keeping with traditional British contempt for all French pronunciation of all French words. See also valet, marquis.

Or, indeed, Paris!

 

[BRayne]

Useless/useful fact: D&D Beyond has audio of official pronounciations.

And uses "Bull-Et" as the pronunciation of Bulette

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I think the fairest approach is to give it the French pronunciation when referring to the grognards of Napoleonic miniatures wargaming, where that is doubtlessly the authentic usage and is an in-joke about the underlying historical matter, and lay down the hard central "g" in the various fantasy elf game contexts, where the name always sounded like some sort of vaguely goblinoid creature to me.