How Do You ...

[GravyFingerz]

pronounce Fafhrd? No really, how do you? Right now, I'm pronouncing it Faf-heerd. Is that correct?

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[The Forsaken One]

faf-herd =]

 

[GravyFingerz]

Thank you very much

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Fritz Leiber actually has the characters talking about it in Ill-Met In Lankhmar, as I recall. It's pronounced, as much as I can remember, FAFF-urd.

 

[GravyFingerz]

I'll keep an eye for that Colonel. I bought two books yesterday, Lankhmar and Thieve's House, vol 1 and 2 respectively. I just finished Snow Women, and will start The Unholy Grail soon, so I am pretty new to these stories.

 

[evil_rmf]

I'll keep an eye for that Colonel. I bought two books yesterday, Lankhmar and Thieve's House, vol 1 and 2 respectively. I just finished Snow Women, and will start The Unholy Grail soon, so I am pretty new to these stories.

You're in for some good stuff, my friend.

 

[StalkingBlue]

IIRC, Leiber has Fafhrd tell the Grey Mouser, with a shrug, that he pronounces it "Fafhrd".

Which is what I do.

 

[Fast Learner]

It's pronounced just like it's spelled.

I've always heard "Faf-hred", with the second syllable rhyming with "red," but you take the "e" sound out, compressing the syllable. Hence it's pronounced the way it's spelled.