How do you pronounce "Sahuagin"?

[Felon]

I wish WOTC would just start putting in IPA pronounciations to the monster descriptions. 'twould save trouble.

I agree. Often I've wondered if Hamatula rhymed with "spatula". Too often, perhaps.

Oh, and here's a real nice one, courtesy of the Epic-Level Handbook: hecatoncheires. Any takers?

 

[Cheiromancer]

Heck-at-on-KAI-rays is how I pronounce it.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

It's official, no-one agrees on how to pronounce i! I feel better about that since it was the monster that I had the most trouble trying to pronounce. Unfortunately for me they have figured in my campaign on multiple occasions. I think that I just resorted to calling them sea devils, which is what the locals would call them anyway. Locathah also got renamed to fish-men, although I had an easier time in pronouncing them.

That there are so many different pronounciations of the word is a bit of a rarity. Normally people have 1 or 2 different ways that people argue over. Sahuagin seem to have about 10+ different variations.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I wish WOTC would just start putting in IPA pronounciations to the monster descriptions. 'twould save trouble.

I agree. Is it that hard to phonetically spell the monster's name in the monster listing somewhere. I think it would make life easier for us poor overworked GM's who either stumble repeatedly over the pronunciation or come up with pronunciation that has otherwise humourous undertones!

Olaf the Stout

 

[glass]

Sah-wah-gin.

Me too. Although it tends to be 'Sah-wah-gin-or-how-ev-er-you-are-sup-posed-to-say-it'!



glass.

 

[glass]

Sea devil. Because after the Lick/Leeshe/Lisch controversery I really can't be bothered.

There was controversy over the lich? I thought that one was pretty straight forward, like lichgate.


glass.

 

[Bagpuss]

How do you pronounce the word "Sahuagin"?

Sa - hog - gwin

at least in your group

 

[Henrix]

For the record, Marsh says "sahuagin" should be pronounced like it's Spanish.

Eerie, I've always thought it should be pronounced as if it were spanish, ever since I was a kid.

 

[Ahrimon]

'sha-who-ah-gin' with the last two parts sounding like "again".

I've always placed that 'h' in there for the beginning though. I never even noticed until I read this thread.

 

[Gez]

I pronounce it with a hard "g" sound, like in begin, but otherwise exactly like I would pronounce any word according to French pronunciation rules, where syllables are not stressed, vowel lengths are all the same, and the sounds associated to letters are predictible based on a few rules rather than completely random and based on usage ever since the Great Vowel Shift.

Here's my dirty little list of mis-pronunciated words.
Cuirass: cur-ri-ass

Is that mispronunciation common? I wonder if that could explain the very common "curiass" misspelling.

I don't know what's the accepted English spelling (since lieutenant is pronounced as leftenant, it could be anything), but I say "kwirass"... The i is short as in "tin", not a long diphthong as in "life", and it is definitely before the r.

For what it's worth, I pronounce "vargouille" as "vargooy".