How do you pronounce...?

thalmin · Dec 15, 2002

'Course this isn't as bad as psuedo-dragon. (puh-SWAY-doe)

RangerWickett · Dec 15, 2002

Illicit and illegal stress the second syllable because it is a prefix that implies negation. Il-legal (not legal), il-licit (not licit, not permitted by law). For three-syllable words without prefixes (such as syllable, possible), stressing the first syllable is quite common.

jaerdaph · Dec 15, 2002

papa_laz said:
While we are on the topic, how do you pronounce Wyrm? I always just assumed it was a tricky way of spelling Worm.

Wyrm rhymes with Germ.

Felix · Dec 15, 2002

I'm a touch dislexic (can you tell?

) so when I first saw Illithid, I thought the only possible way of pronouncing it was I-thil-lid.

Ever since then I just can't make myself say either Illithid or Illithid. I think Ithillid sounds much cooler.

Lela · Dec 15, 2002

jaerdaph said:
Wyrm rhymes with Germ.

Same here.

Agamon · Dec 15, 2002

It's spelt Illithid, but it's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.

Lela · Dec 15, 2002

Agamon said:
It's spelt Illithid, but it's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.

Or in the voice of a running peasent to any guy with a sword, "Man-eating, sucks brains, mouth like a squid. Oh, Pelor save us all!!!!!!!"

Than agian, you might want something shorter.

Mathew_Freeman · Dec 15, 2002

I-lith-id.

but then, we had an argument about Legolas once...

"It's Le-GO-las!"

"It's Leggo-las!"

etc

randomling · Dec 15, 2002

il-LITH-id.

IL-lithid just sounds... well, it doesn't fall right on my ears.

Wyrm is like Worm in my opinion. Unless you want to pronounce it like a strangled form of "weird" with an "m" on the end.

Nah, it's like Worm...

Sixchan · Dec 15, 2002

Hmm...I'm not much good with telling about emphasis, but I've always had the "i" sound at the start as a seperate syllable.

Ih-li-thid

I guess I'm just different. I say lich as leech, and I don't think that's right for most people, either.