Greyhawk pronounciations help

[William Ronald]

Thanks

Thanks, Erik.

I tend to want to say O-erth myself. It is something that has popped up when I have been playing LG or come to mind while being in the IR thread?

I might have missed it, but I heard that the LGG was being discontinued. Is there another product coming to replace it?

 

[corndog]

I'm with Erik, I've always said O-erth. I find combining the OE into one sound is awkward. I feel the same about the EO sound in a few Greyhawk names (mainly countries). While I know the word yeoman is actually pronounced yo-min, I tend to call the yeomanry yee-oh-man-ree, because it fits with the trend my group has of calling the nearby nations key-oh-lind (keoland) and gee-off (geoff).

It's a fantasy world, and admittedly, with all due respect to Mr. Gygax and his succesors in developing GH came up with some damn stupid names. Easily fixed with a little creative license though, so basically my suggestion is, see how your players would pronounce it, get a consensus, and damn what the rest of the world thinks.

I mean, come on, what do you call someon from "Jeff" anyway? Jeffers? Jeffites? Jeffies?

hehe

 

[William Ronald]

Corndog:

I understand how you feel about the names. The funny thing is that my brother's name is Jeff. So maybe Geoff residents are Geoffreys. (In which case, do they have Geoffrey's tubes that are starship structures in Star Trek. Ok, purists. I know its Jeffries tubes from the name of someone on the original series.)

Over in the in character forum, some of us are trying to gather old Greyhawk resources -- especially maps. Fortunately, the links are in the first post of the Industrial Revolution forum. Here's the link:

http://www.enworld.org/messageboard...p?s=&forumid=15

I always want to say O-erth because Orth sounds like Oath, and Oith sounds like the fathers of a few of my fellow Chicagoans.