Let's pronounce "Genasi"

[doctorhook]

Wait what? How do you have multiple ways of saying Drow?

And I've always pronounced Genasi, Geh-Nah-See myself but I have heard other pronounciations so YMMV.

....no really how the hell do you say Drow in a different way?

FWIW, i used to say "drow", as in, "Drow, drow, drow your boat, gently down the stream...". Later, playing BGII, I heard it pronounced in-game as "drow", like "Drow! That hurts!"

I'm comfortable with the latter pronunciation, now.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Wait what? How do you have multiple ways of saying Drow?

Apparently, some people really want to pronounce it to rhyme with "snow" or "no," even though the official pronunciation rhymes with "how" or "prow."

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Hmm... I am having a hard time trying to think best way to sound out how I say Drow. I guess, DR-ouw.

 

[Morrus]

And, of course, Ari.

Just for my own peace of mind, am I correct in assuming "Ari" rhymes with "Harry"?

 

[Cam Banks]

Just for my own peace of mind, am I correct in assuming "Ari" rhymes with "Harry"?

I've been assuming it's pronounced the same way Ari Fleischer pronounces it, which is to say, rhyming with "starry."

Cheers,
Cam

 

[am181d]

I've always pronounced it like jen-uh-sigh. If it was pronounced jen-uh-see, it would rhyme with the beer Hennessey. "Genasi" is a fantasy word, so it should be pronounced like sci-fi and psi, as opposed to pepperoni.

 

[doctorhook]

I've always pronounced it like jen-uh-sigh. If it was pronounced jen-uh-see, it would rhyme with the beer Hennessey. "Genasi" is a fantasy word, so it should be pronounced like sci-fi and psi, as opposed to pepperoni.

Well, the majority seem to pronounce Genasi with the emphasis on the middle syllable, (as is, AFAIK, typical with english), which mean that it wouldn't really rhyme with Hennessey.

The closest rhyme for "jen-NA-see" that I can think of is, "the chassis".

 

[Mouseferatu]

Just for my own peace of mind, am I correct in assuming "Ari" rhymes with "Harry"?

I've been assuming it's pronounced the same way Ari Fleischer pronounces it, which is to say, rhyming with "starry."

Cam's more or less got the right of it, though of course with Morrus being one of them there British types, we've also got cultural accents to consider.

"The last two syllables of "safari" and "Atari" both rhyme with how my name's pronounced.

 

[Sound of Azure]

FWIW, i used to say "drow", as in, "Drow, drow, drow your boat, gently down the stream...". Later, playing BGII, I heard it pronounced in-game as "drow", like "Drow! That hurts!"

I'm comfortable with the latter pronunciation, now.

Reminds me of one of my former DMs who pronounced "Lich" as Lick (like in Lichtenstein), rather than Litch, as the rest of the group did. I'm not sure if he was right or not, to this day. We had a lot of trouble taking something seriously with a name like that, even if it was right.

 

[Klaus]

Apparently, some people really want to pronounce it to rhyme with "snow" or "no," even though the official pronunciation rhymes with "how" or "prow."

Well, it's hard to undo more than 10 years of having it rhyming with "snow"...