Dee or Die!! Do you say dee-6 or die-6?

[Psychic Warrior]

Nice save. Though the Greyhawk fans might have you assassinated for that.

As long as they don't use any droo I should be safe.

 

[Orius]

"dee-20" of course, why would I say it anyother way? That's a letter d in front of the number not the word die.

 

[Orius]

and to throw in another one: THAC0 = thacko (or for all those drow = dro people, thackow)

I always pronounced it THAY-co, but that's how everyone I played with said it. Nowadays, it doesn't matter with it being replaced by attack bonuses.

Here's one. How do you pronounce daemon? (I'll hold my pronunciation till others get a chance.)

I pronounce it as Yugoloth.

 

[Orius]

Your first gamemaster was Mr. T?

Now THAT conjures up a very strange mental image!

 

[Jdvn1]

So what do you say, but more importantly, why?

I say dee because that's the letter in front of the number...

Sometimes I say s20. Depends on what I'm playing.

 

[Mr. Kaze]

Pronouncing drow as cow is a pet peeve of mine, because it sounds monumentally stupid.

Yes, but it matches the ECL +2 for their racial abilities in 3.5e so very nicely. Really, we can settle this entire discussion by just having an army of Duergar wizards go and cloudkill 'em into extinction.

Of course, when Yuan-Ti is pronounced "Wanty", I can't help but joke that it's Knea-Di for a few more grevious head-wounds.

::Kaze

 

[ssampier]

I usually say "dee", except for six siders which I say "die" for some strange reason.

Or when DMing newbies it's, "here roll this!"

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

re: daemon (post 65)

[sigh]
Deemun, or course. That one's not really controversial, there's just a lot of folks who never bothered to check it.

If daemon is "deemun," how do you say demon? To me, it works as follows:

Ba'atezu are "devilz"
Yugoloths are either "day-munz" or "da-munz" (like IPA) (so daemon rhymes with salmon)
Tanar'ri (and only tanar'ri) are "dee-munz"

Catoplebas are just "cat-OPal-bas"

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Of course, when Yuan-Ti is pronounced "Wanty", I can't help but joke that it's Knea-Di for a few more grevious head-wounds.

::Kaze

you want tea? just real quick.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

bluemoonfalc; you're from Livonia? You checking out the Detroit Gameday there at Pandemonium tomorrow on Middlebelt and Ford?

einsamste: You'd actually be correct to say dark elfs instead of dark elves. Elves with a [v] is a Tolkienism. Actually correct grammar pluralizes elfs and dwarfs, not elves and dwarves.

You mean like a pack of wolfs? Or two halfs make a whole? The cow has two calfs?

What do you mean "correct grammar?" According to Merriam Webster, its elves and either dwarfs or dwarves, whichever you prefer.

Sorry if this sounds rude, but I'm very much a descriptive, rather than proscriptive linguist, so I always balk when people start in on "correct grammar."