Misprounced Monsters; Or... What did you call that monster, again?

[blargney the second]

There's a player in our group that pronounces kobolds as 'koh-bah-loydz'. Not sure where that one came from...

 

[Voadam]

I do that too! In fact, I did it at a game a few week's back, as part of a puzzle the PC's were trying to solve. Unfortunately, they didn't know what a "shy-mera" was (the noobs don't know D&D monsters at all, actually), so they couldn't solve the puzzle. The second it was over (they found an alternate way to do it), they realized I was just misprounouncing it.

"It's Ky-mera, Dave, KY-Mera! GAWD!"

Ah, well. The GM always gets the last laugh...

I played in a puzzle game the DM got out of Dungeon where we had to find and assemble the runes to spell out the god's name to escape the trapped dimension in a temple to the rune god Omega. A whole big intro with clerics of the God chanting Omega, Omega, Omega etc. and us talking to them, getting some info on the religion, the god, and the temple before we went in.

I was frustrated that we couldn't find the "e" until we found an "h". I turned to the DM and said " 'H?' that's not in Omega. Wait a minute. Is the name of the god 'Oghma'? As in the god from the Forgotten Realms and Celtic Mythology?"

The DM said no then glanced down at the magazine and stared pretty hard as he read the same word over and over again. Then his face turned bright red.

Frikken dyslexia.

 

[Aeolius]

And then there are those crazy folk who pronounce a certain silver metal as "AL-you-men-e-um"

My personal favorite involves the CARE-uh-mel versus CAR-mul people. I finally decided to call the stuff car-AH-mul

 

[Sejs]

There's a player in our group that pronounces kobolds as 'koh-bah-loydz'. Not sure where that one came from...

At a guess, it's a cobalt bearing ore that kobolds mine? Sounds reasonable enough. Plus it means they'd have access to plenty of arsenic and sulfur for all their wonderful kobold traps, too.

 

[Thurbane]

Some bones of contention that often come up at games I have played in:

Paladin - Puh-lad-en or Pal-addin
Ethereal - Eeth-er-el or Eth-ear-ial
Skeletal - Skel-et-al or Skel-eet-al
Archon - Arch-on or Ark-on
Duergar - Dure-gar or Dwer-gar

 

[Psimancer]

Apparently when I say Ptolus as "toll us" Its not correct.

Err, okay... how do you pronounce it then? ('cause that how I say it too; I just assumed the 'P' was silent...)


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[Allandaros]

Frikken dyslexia.

It could be worse...I had a game where I read 2-12 damage as 2d12 damage. Dead barbarian dyslexia.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Appearantly, I pronounce every name in Wheel of Time, I screw it up. (ex: Aiel "Eye-eel" [as opposed to the rest of the group's "Ale", Athan'Miere "Ah-thahn-mee-air" [as opposed to "Athan-meer"], Trolloc "Troll-ock" ["Trol-luck"], Arafellin "Air-a-fellon" ["Ar-aff-a-lin"]).

Funny, I'm listenign to the Wheel of Time audio edition, and they pronounce the names just like you do.

And I thought it was "TOL-us", myself.

At least when I DM, I can shrug it off: "Well, in your campaign they might be 'leeks', but in my campaign they are 'litches'. And in this underdark, it's 'How now brown drow', not 'drow-drow-drow-your-boat'."

Palad"in" --

[C] Have gun will travel, reads the [G] card of a [C] man
A knight without armor in a [G] savage [C] land
His [Am] fast gun hire, heeds the [F] calling [C] wind
A [F] soldier of fortune, is a man called --- Pal-a-[C] din

[C] Paladin, Paladin, [F] where do you [C] roam
Paladin, Paladin, [F] far, far from [C] home

[C] He travels on to where-[G] ever he [C] must
A chess knight of silver is his [G] badge of [C] trust
There are [Am] campfire legends that the [F] plainsmen [C] sing
Of the [F] man with the gun, of the man called --- Pal-a-[C] din.

 

[JustKim]

Celedras -- Should be "kuh-LED-ras" but he latched onto "SELL-a-dras"

Why would "ce" be pronounced as "kuh"?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

And of course the bloody ixit- ixa- ixahit- ... stingray people.