How do you pronounce Kyuss?

[DungeonmasterCal]

Cuss with a y thrown in there.

Same. Though my players have always shouted "Run away!" when one appeared.

 

[James Jacobs]

Around the office, we pronounce it Kai-us, which rhymes with "try us."

 

[WayneLigon]

Just like it's spelled K'yuss. No ee or anything save as a kind of 'left over' sound from trying to put K and Y together, like at the middle of 'Thank you' said fast enough to blend the words into one. 'uss' rhymes with 'cuss'.

 

[Desdichado]

Just like it's spelled K'yuss. No ee or anything save as a kind of 'left over' sound from trying to put K and Y together, like at the middle of 'Thank you' said fast enough to blend the words into one. 'uss' rhymes with 'cuss'.

That's how the DM said it. I hard heard Kyoos in the past. At the moment, I'm actually leaning towards Kai-uss.

I actually can't pronounce fantasy names the way author's intended them to be pronounced half the time. That's what I get for learning another language besides English, I guess.

 

[Joshua Randall]

I have long thought that if you want your fantasy-world words to be pronounceable, you need to spell them in a sensible way... i.e., not like English spells stuff.

Spanish would be a good choice: you pronounce everything exactly as it is written. Yes, yes, I am aware of the very few exceptions.

Unfortunately Spanish has not short vowel sounds (like the "uh"-sound in the English word "us"), so getting Kyuss into Spanish would be quite diffiicult... you'd end up with "kayus", prounounced to try with "try"-"juice".

Sigh.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm a big fan of "one letter, one sound" orthography. I realize that for English that would at least double the size of our alphabet and change the way everybody spells stuff, but in the long run, I think it would simplify things greatly.

And you could do it with diacritics, I suppose, and not technically increase the number of letters.

Oh well, everyone's gotta have at least one hopeless crusade, I suppose.

 

[Woas]

Thats funny. Kyuss looks like a unique fantasy name, but that is what we call the city Syracuse (in central New York State) for short: 'cuse. Atleast, thats how I would say Kyuss.

 

[Tewligan]

Around the office, we pronounce it Kai-us, which rhymes with "try us."

That's how I've always pronounced it.

 

[Quickbeam]

Around the office, we pronounce it Kai-us, which rhymes with "try us."

If it's good enough "around the office" for y'all, then that'll suit us just fine!

 

[Quickbeam]

...my players have always shouted "Run away!" when one appeared.

Now there's some good advice JD. Learn it. Live it. Know it. Pass it on.