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

[Sejs]

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.

-- Sing Along with Uncle Olgar --

 

[Thurbane]

Wasn't there an old issue of Dragon that had a pronounciation guide to a lot of monster names...I'm thinking back around issue 91 or so...I'll check out my CD archive when I get home...

 

[Jeff Wilder]

The only mispronunciations that bother me are the ones with no basis in actual rules of pronunciation. You wanna rhyme "drow" with "vow" or "dough"? No skin off my nose, either way.

But that idiotic "boo-LAY" pronunciation of "bulette," and the (primarily DDM) people who say "chraal" as "ch'rawl" get on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard.

 

[Nyaricus]

I seem to have trouble with "Otyugh"

"OH-tee-yug" is how I pronounce it.

oh-t-yoogh is how I say it.

However, guys, is Paladin pronouced "pal-la-din" or "pal-lad-din" or somehting else?

cheers,
--N

 

[Allandaros]

Pal-la-din. Listen to the song!

 

[D.Shaffer]

They're not monster names, but my DM pronounces Chasm as [CHA-sum], Cache as [cash-SHAY], and queue as [Cue-EY]. It drives me nuts.

 

[SunRaven01]

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

Because -- basketball team notwithstanding -- the peoples of early Ireland and Scotland were Celts (said "kelts" not "selts").

I cringe everytime I hear people say "Seltics."

 

[Templetroll]

Three years. I still have not been able to live it down.

Me: So you come up to a translucent wall...

Them: No, no! Don't you mean transuckyoulent? BAHAHAHAH!

Me: Sigh.

The next time you have a translucent wall and they make that comment have it be a vampiric translucent wall and let them see how that sucks!

 

[Grazzt]

Wasn't there an old issue of Dragon that had a pronounciation guide to a lot of monster names...I'm thinking back around issue 91 or so...I'll check out my CD archive when I get home...

Yeppers. There was. I don't recall the issue # (91 might be right). Here's some from WotC's site:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/dnddefinitivefaq.asp

Aarakocra: a-rah-KO-krah
Arquebus: AR-keh-bus
Baatezu: bay-AH-teh-zu or BAH-teh-zu
Bardiche: bar-DEESH
Bulette: boo-LAY
Catoblepus: kuht-OH-bleh-puhs, also kah-TA-ble-pus
Chatkcha: CHAT-k-cha (thri-kreen throwing weapon)
Chimera: ky-MAEE-ruh, or ky-MAIR-ruh (rhymes with "care of")
Chitin: KITE-in
Cuirass: KWEE-rass
Drow: DRAU (as in drowsy; rhymes with now and how)
Dweomer: DWEH-mer (rhymes with "hem her"), or DWIH-mer; sometimes DWEE-mer
Falchion: FAL-chun
Geas: GEE-ass, or GYASS (both with a hard "g")
Gygax: GY-gaks
Halberd: HAL-berd, (not HAL-bread)
Herb: ERB
Ioun: EYE-oon
Iuz: YOOZ or EE-uz
Ixitxachitl: iks-it-ZATCH-i-til or ik-zit-zah-chih-tull
Lich: LITCH (as in ditch), *not* LIKE or LICK
Lycanthrope: LY-kun-throhp, LY-kan-throhp (like lichen rope/my tan rope)
Lycanthropy: ly-KAN-thruh-pee
Mage: MAGE (as in age), *not* MADGE (as in badger)
Melee: MAY-lay
Otyugh: AHT-yuhg
Sahuagin: sah-HWAH-gin
Scythe: syth (rhymes with tithe)
Svirfneblin: svirf-NEB-lin
Tanar'ri: tah-NAHR-ree
Tarrasque: tah-RASK
THAC0: either THAK-oh, or THAKE-oh
Vargouille: var-GWEEL
Vrock: vrahk
Wyvern: WIH-vern (as in did learn), or WHY-vern
Zaknafein: zack-NAY-fee-in

 

[Zhaleskra]

The only mispronunciations that bother me are the ones with no basis in actual rules of pronunciation. You wanna rhyme "drow" with "vow" or "dough"? No skin off my nose, either way.

But that idiotic "boo-LAY" pronunciation of "bulette," and the (primarily DDM) people who say "chraal" as "ch'rawl" get on my nerves like nails on a chalkboard.

I used to think people who pronounced "drow" to rhyme with "slow" wuz brung up wrong. Like it or not, "boo-LAY" is the proper pronunciation, as referenced in the Monster Manual in every edition of Dungeons & Dragons that I know about.

A college friend of mine used to add an extra "n" to "lycanthrope" resulting in this pronunciation: LAY-nk-AN-thrope.