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How do you pronounce Bullywug?
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Olive
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Australian? I've never heard that before, and they don't look much like bunyips.
"To the Aborigines the Bunyip was a beast of many different shapes and sizes. Some Bunyips were covered in feathers; some even had scales like crocodiles. Common features in most Aboriginal drawings of Bunyips are a horse-like tail, flippers, and tusks like the ones found on walruses."
Don't sound like frog men to me.
"To the Aborigines the Bunyip was a beast of many different shapes and sizes. Some Bunyips were covered in feathers; some even had scales like crocodiles. Common features in most Aboriginal drawings of Bunyips are a horse-like tail, flippers, and tusks like the ones found on walruses."
Don't sound like frog men to me.
Thotas
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I didn't say I thought Bunyips and Bullywugs were the same thing. I said I thought (with a maybe thrown in) they both came from Australian stories, just like satyrs and nymphs both come from the Greeks. On the other hand, if Bunyips come in that much variety in shape, who says one can't look like a frog-man? But anyway, after dead pointed out that he IS from Australia, my less than 100 per cent sure is now even less than it was ...
Gez
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Ba-tra-sog. 
But actually, as always, I don't bother trying to pronounce it the English ways, because it's just confusing, as this thread clearly demonstrate.
While English proposes countless pronounciation for the same spelling, French proposes countless spellings for the same pronounciation. You always know how a written word is going to be pronounced (only tricky part: the "ch" of word derived from Greek, like chiroptere, there's no rule wether they're pronounced "k" or "sh"); but you don't always know how a pronounced word is going to be written.
But actually, as always, I don't bother trying to pronounce it the English ways, because it's just confusing, as this thread clearly demonstrate.
While English proposes countless pronounciation for the same spelling, French proposes countless spellings for the same pronounciation. You always know how a written word is going to be pronounced (only tricky part: the "ch" of word derived from Greek, like chiroptere, there's no rule wether they're pronounced "k" or "sh"); but you don't always know how a pronounced word is going to be written.
Bloodstone Press
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I've done quite a bit of research on Australian monsters (see the Bane Ledger and the Primal Codex), but I've never seen Bullywugs in that research.
Of course that doesn't mean that they are not australian, only that if they are, the connection is very obscure.
The person to ask about the origin of bullywugs is Gary.
Of course that doesn't mean that they are not australian, only that if they are, the connection is very obscure.
The person to ask about the origin of bullywugs is Gary.
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