How do you pronunce "grognard"?

[MNblockhead]

What does it say about me who says MAY-lee.

That your American, according to the dictionaries I've looked at.

 

[MNblockhead]

I've always gone with "meh-LEE", so...?

"D&D combats are such slog, I'm so bored with the meh-lee." ;-)

 

[Gradine]

I've always pronounced it "GROG-hawk"

 

[Sir Brennen]

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[Guest 7034872]

Someone has to say it:

"Snarf."

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I still say it should be pronounced "grown nerd" because I think that's funny.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

If I'm saying the whole word, 3.

If I'm shortening it to "grog", 2.

Re: melee unfortunately my brain is totally stuck on mee-lee (or more specifically m'lee), even though I know perfectly well that maylay is correct.

What does it say about me who says MAY-lee.

That feels like a Southern pronunciation, but not like Deep South. More like Kentucky or something maybe. I quite like it. "Gentlemen, you will stand seven paces apart and then engage in a maylee!".

 

[aramis erak]

In the context of D&D, I've always pronounced it "GRAWN-yard", sort of an American bastardization of the French pronunciation.

I tend to the groǧ-nard - where the ǧ is a voiced non-plosive sound, rather than the glottally stopped hard g at the front.
I don't grok IPA well enough to use it.

 

[Sir Brennen]

That feels like a Southern pronunciation, but not like Deep South. More like Kentucky or something maybe. I quite like it. "Gentlemen, you will stand seven paces apart and then engage in a maylee!".

Deep south would be "... and then engage in maaay-lay"

 

[aramis erak]

What does it say about me who says MAY-lee.

You don't apply the vowel-consonant-vowel rule... and mix classical and modern English vowel pronunciationss in the same word.

My preferred is may-lay (equal stress), or the variant on the French, which is closer to meh-LAY or muh-LAY, at least according to the Qebecois, Cajuns, and Creoles I've known say it.

Then again, I also usually prefer to see it spelled in English with diacritics, melée, witch makes it mee-LEE. (vowel-consonant-vowel rule, double e rule, acute accent denotes stressed syllable when not 1st. The diacritic French being mêlée...

I hate French orthography, but once you learn the "dozen oh's" (o, ou, eau, eaux, etc...), it's mostly consistent.