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

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Wow.

I *gotta* hear the justification of that statement. I'm all ears, as they say.

To me, it looks like a French word, so I agree with Herremann: boo-lay. I will admit, though, that half the time, we pronounce it "bullet," as in a round discharged from a firearm. Then again, out of laziness,

ixitxachitl is "eat- -skittle

I can't resist chiming in on the other issues, too.
drow rhymes with cow. always has, always will
die is singular. dice is plural. d20 is "dee-twenty."

 

[Desdichado]

About the drow thing. Which way do you pronounce it? Unfortunately I am also in the dumb cow camp. Are you in the "Hey Bro" posse or doing something entirely different?

I'm definately a "hey bro" kinda guy, although more and more I'm finding that the word -- no matter how it's pronounced -- irritates me. I'm preferring the pronunciation [dark elf] more and more.

Games Workshop uses a pretty cool alternate word; druchii, although that's pretty problematic in terms of pronunciation itself...

 

[Desdichado]

To me, it looks like a French word, so I agree with Herremann: boo-lay. I will admit, though, that half the time, we pronounce it "bullet," as in a round discharged from a firearm.

Hence the confusion. In French, it would not be pronounced boo lay anymore than cigarette is pronounced cigaray, or marionette is pronounced marionay, or Bernadette is pronounced Bernaday, etc.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

I'm definately a "hey bro" kinda guy, although more and more I'm finding that the word -- no matter how it's pronounced -- irritates me. I'm preferring the pronunciation [dark elf] more and more.

Games Workshop uses a pretty cool alternate word; druchii, although that's pretty problematic in terms of pronunciation itself...

That is a cool word. Why do you say that the pronunciation is problematic. Isn't that just /druxi'i/ (or maybe /druxi:/ or (druki:/) ?
Okay, sorry, nevermind. I think I see the problem, now.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Hence the confusion. In French, it would not be pronounced boo lay anymore than cigarette is pronounced cigaray, or marionette is pronounced marionay, or Bernadette is pronounced Bernaday, etc.

Oh, yeah. I've never studied French, but I'm surprised I missed that. Damn. Now I have to change the way I pronounce Bullette.

I don't mind when people disagree with me, but I hate when they're right.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Sorry, I don't mean to hijack, here, but this thread has me thinking of all sorts of pronunciation problems.

Archon is of Greek origin, right, so rather than arch-on, it should be ark-on.

Barghest, my wife points out, could be German, maybe "bear ghost" or "spectre that leads one up the garden path" so maybe it should be ba-umlaut-r giest.

I just looked up Barghest on encyclopedia mythica at pantheon.org, and it brought back "Barghest," a monstrous dog from the myths of Yorkshire and "Black Dog," a well known legend.

I'm still working on some more, hold on.

 

[Harlock]

Since I only post once in a blue moon, I am glad I can weigh in on the most important issues. Dee 6, Dee 12, Dee 20. Why? 2d6 just seems like two D six to me.

Chances are we were all supposed to not be lazy slugs and were supposed to read 2d6 as "roll two six-sided dice, please". You know, like $124.45 is supposed to be read "one hundred twenty-four dollars and forty-five cents," but we all just say "one twenty-four forty-five"? And, if you're that person that says, "one hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-five cents, " you're ALL WRONG!

 

[Harlock]

I don't mind when people disagree with me, but I hate when their right.

That'd be they're.

*Harlock snickers and runs for cover.

 

[Judas]

I won't vote in the poll because there is no option for: "I use both."

I generally use both because they are interchangeable. Does it really matter which way it's pronounced? You can pretty much tell who is an old gamer of DnD when you hear them use the word Die for the dice. The original products used die in the terminology alot more than "D". For me, I usually use "D" for when I'm talking about multiple dice, such as 5d6 or 2d10. I use Die for when I'm talking about a single Die, like "Use a die 20 for doing a skill check".

Honestly... anyone who isn't **** won't really care. Don't like Boo-Lay? Call it a Land Shark. Don't like Drow like a cow, call them Dark Elves..

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Thanks Harlock. That's emabarrassing.

Chitine: how do you say it? I've been saying ch'-teen, but like archon, I think this should be kee-teen.

Balor: from Celtic myth, this should be b'lor.

My wife refuses to call deep gnomes svirfneblin. She call them Smurf-nibblin'.

Yrthak . . . what do you do with that?!