D&D 5E Gracklestugh pronunciation?

[77IM]

Any ideas how to say this word?

Please do not say, "Rhymes with backlestugh."

 

[Morrus]

Grack-ul-stuff.

 

[AntiStateQuixote]

Page 251 of Out of the Abyss has pronunciation guide: Grak-ul-stoog.

 

[Psikerlord#]

pronunciation guide.... high five! All adventures should do this! (or... just write it phonetically in the first place?)

 

[thewok]

I like saying "Grackle stew."

Which is something I start wondering about every year around October and November as the damn birds start perching all over the transmission lines at major intersections.

 

[pukunui]

pronunciation guide.... high five! All adventures should do this!

AFAIK, all the D&D Encounters adventures have a little pronunciation guide at the end.

I like saying "Grackle stew."

Same.

 

[Henry]

Grack-el-stuff? I admit, i hadn't even considered that one, but I totally see it.

I've always rhymed the "-stugh" with the name "Hugh" (hyoo). And "-stoog" is just just as fine to go with.

 

[jgsugden]

Bob.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

. And "-stoog" is just just as fine to go with.

This is correct and the way I always pronounced it.

 

[thalmin]

Best pronounced through a mouthfull of fudge.

 

[77IM]

Bob.

"No no no, it's spelled Luxury Yecht, but it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove."

 

[77IM]

Thanks everybody for your help!

I am surprised to find "-oog" is the official pronunciation as terminal "-gh" is pronounced differently than "-g" in English; I was expecting answers ending in "-f" or "-h" sounds or maybe "-k". I guess I should expect weird spellings from the realm that brought us Dr'izz't Do'Urde'n'''.

 

[Mercule]

I like saying "Grackle stew."

This. I have no idea what goes by that name, but I assume it's some sort of NPC/monster. Which means, of course, one of the PCs will inevitably start referring to him/her/it as "Stewie".

 

[pukunui]

[MENTION=5100]Mercule[/MENTION]: It's the capital city of the duergar in the Forgotten Realms.

 

[Agamon]

I guess I should expect weird spellings from the realm that brought us Dr'izz't Do'Urde'n'''.

T'hat's no't qu'ite ho'w i't's sp'ell'ed..'..

 

[The Grassy Gnoll]

I like "grackle-stuh-ch" (pr like "loch", or for the non-scots out there, like you've just hawked up a loogy) - sounds sufficiently harsh for the duergar.

How, incidentally, does one pronounce "duergar", anyway? I always pronounce it "dwhirr-gar", though I've heard "durgar" often. It could even be "joor-gar".

On a side note, "svirfneblin" always make me think they talk like the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. "Vurdy vurdy vurd".

 

[77IM]

I guess I always read it as straightforward as possible: DOO-er-gar. But that does tend to slur into DUR-gar.

 

[zombiecube]

I have to add hyphens between the syllables in all the Kuo-Toa words in order to be able to say them (or even read them in my head). Even then, I usually just say the first syllable and let the rest trail off as a blub-blub-gurgle-gurgle mutter. Which actually works well.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

"Mmm, Gracklestuff, the mushroom fluff treat that your little Duergar can't get enough of!"

Grack-ul-stuff.

 

[CapnZapp]

I guess I always read it as straightforward as possible: DOO-er-gar. But that does tend to slur into DUR-gar.

No racial slurs, please.





(straight face)