Most mispronounced monster names

[BWP]

gnome.
do you pronounce it g-nom or now-m?

Both would be wrong. It rhymes with home.

Like the old Jona Lewie song, Stop the Cavalry, with the classic lyric "I wish I was a gnome for Christmas".



Chorus

Wish I could be dancing now
in the arms of the girl I love
Mary Bradley waits at home
She has been waiting 2 years long
Wish I was a gnome for Christmas

 

[Tolen Mar]

gnome.
do you pronounce it g-nom or now-m?

Not that I think that TV ads are the end all of pronunciation..but haven't you heard of the roaming gnome?

Every blasted commercial break...

 

[davidschwartznz]

Dragon : Dragonne = bullet : Bulette

So, that would be drah-gay then?

 

[Heathen72]

Not from the monster manual, but the Sidhe inevitably get called the "Side-hee"

 

[Al'Kelhar]

Yuan-ti?

Would you like an herbal infusion or a piece of cloth to dangle from your neck?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

That's nearly correct. Just that the "boo" sound is more like the German "ü" .

I tend to think the same. But it is incredibly hard to explain this to english speakers, because I can´t think of a word with "ü" in English.
Maybe the "assimilated" german word "Übermensch". But no, I doubt they do pronounce the "ü" correctly, not when I think of the usual writing of it - "Ubermensch"...
To use the German pronounciaton "standards" to describe how Bullette is probably pronounced in French, I would say: "Bühlet". But in our group, we usually say Bulett or Bulette...

 

[Three_Haligonians]

It's not a monster but...

I have always been a fan of the "Tra-BUCKET"

J from Three Haligonians

 

[demiurge1138]

Yuan-ti?

Would you like an herbal infusion or a piece of cloth to dangle from your neck?

Well, it's probably not the way it was intended to be said, but I fixed that by pronouncing it "yan-ti". Rhymes with "jaunty".

Demiurge out.

 

[Zander]

The 'h' in 'herb' is aspirated in English. It is only dropped in dialects such as American and Cockney.

 

[Captain Tagon]

I have always been a fan of the "Tra-BUCKET"

J from Three Haligonians

Hey, I used that one for years playing Battletech. And actually, I tend to use it now. Sounds more intimidating and despite my pedantic leanings, sometimes aesthetics outweights accuracy.