Err.. what? English grammar has enough rules and contradictions without you conjuring up new ones out of thin air! How do you pronounce 'grief'? Or 'thief', 'relief', etc.?I've always said Tiefling Tief (tie-f) ling ;when two vowels follow each other, you pronounce the first one...
@ 21:05 Rabbi asks: “How do you pronounce the following words: githyanki, otyugh, Sehanine, falchion, reagent, treant, eladrin?” (Bonus words: drow, bulette)
I've always said Tiefling Tief (tie-f) ling ;when two vowels follow each other, you pronounce the first one...
9) same, though knowing some french doesn't help me in how I want to pronounce it: Bu-LAY
Of course, then, you pronounce slow, row, tow, etc. all the same? Because they all have W's, too. My opinion is that pronouncing them like cow is simply degrading. If I were a bad-ass dark elf, I wouldn't want to rhyme with cow, or sow.drow (rhymes with plow; if it were "dro" it wouldn't have a w, imo...)
You must get some funny looks, then, when you talk about thieves.I've always said Tiefling Tief (tie-f) ling ;when two vowels follow each other, you pronounce the first one...
Yes, the origin is as you say, but virtually all online sources I've seen give two possible pronunciations (rhymes with dough or cow), both for the mythological and D&D usages of the word.droh (Scottish mythological race, akin to the Nordic Svartalfar).
Heck, they're hardly worth calling rules. More like "those helpful guidelines that aren't used"...The crazy thing about that is that the rule in English is the exact opposite. Usually. The fun thing about English is that we have a lot of instances that break the rules.
You must get some funny looks, then, when you talk about thieves.
Then my bu-LET will crush you!it may also explain why I can never spell things like thieves or klein, or stein.... hum...
I still stand by my "bue-let" pronunciation.
Still, I find it humorous that people like at these two words side-by-side and pronounce them differently: thief-ling, tiefling.it may also explain why I can never spell things like thieves or klein, or stein.... hum...
I actually concur with that pronunciation.I still stand by my "bue-let" pronunciation.
Ah, so yer a conformist.But I've always pronounced Drow to rhyme with Bow.
I find it pretty funny that crazy made up D&D words like "reagent" and "falchion" made the list. I mean, how would anyone figure out how to pronounce those?
fal⋅chion /ˈfɔltʃən, -ʃən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [fawl-chuhn, -shuhn] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a broad, short sword having a convex edge curving sharply to the point.
2. Archaic. any sword.
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Origin:
1275–1325; ME fauchoun (with l restored in 16th cent.) < OF fauchon < VL *falciōn-, s. of falciō, deriv. of L falx, s. falc- sickle
re⋅a⋅gent /riˈeɪdʒənt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ree-ey-juhnt] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Chemistry. a substance that, because of the reactions it causes, is used in analysis and synthesis.
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Origin:
1790–1800; re(act) + agent; cf. act