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<blockquote data-quote="Wormwood" data-source="post: 839211" data-attributes="member: 928">Let's see what ol' Howard has to say about it:&quot;The letters CTHULHU were merely what Prof. Angell hastily devised to represent (roughly and imperfectly, of course) the dream-name orally mouthed to him by the young artist Wilcox. The actual sound--as nearly as human organs could imitate it or human letters record it--may be taken as something like Khlul'-hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, since the h represents the guttural thickness. The second syllable is not very well rendered--the l sound being unrepresented.&quot;-- Letter to Duane Rimel, July 23, 1934&quot;About the pronunciation of the Outside word roughly given as Cthulhu in our alphabet-authorities seem to differ. Of course it is not a human name at all-having never been designed for enunciation by the voacal apparatus of Homo sapiens. The best approximation one can make is to grunt, bark, or cough the imperfectly-formed syllables Cluh-Luh with the tip of the tongue firmly affixed to the roof of the mouth. That is, if one is a human being. Directions for other entities are naturally different.&quot;-- Letter to Willis Cononover, August 29, 1936</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wormwood, post: 839211, member: 928"] Let's see what ol' Howard has to say about it: "The letters CTHULHU were merely what Prof. Angell hastily devised to represent (roughly and imperfectly, of course) the dream-name orally mouthed to him by the young artist Wilcox. The actual sound--as nearly as human organs could imitate it or human letters record it--may be taken as something like [i]Khlul'-hloo[/i], with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, since the h represents the guttural thickness. The second syllable is not very well rendered--the l sound being unrepresented." [size=1]-- Letter to Duane Rimel, July 23, 1934[/size] "About the pronunciation of the Outside word roughly given as Cthulhu in our alphabet-authorities seem to differ. Of course it is not a human name at all-having never been designed for enunciation by the voacal apparatus of Homo sapiens. The best approximation one can make is to grunt, bark, or cough the imperfectly-formed syllables [i]Cluh-Luh [/i]with the tip of the tongue firmly affixed to the roof of the mouth. That is, if one is a human being. Directions for other entities are naturally different." [size=1]-- Letter to Willis Cononover, August 29, 1936[/size] [/QUOTE]

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