Most mispronounced monster names

[Mighty Halfling]

I've only ever heard tarrasque pronounced tear-a-skew. Tear-ask seems silly.

 

[Darrell]

I've always pronounced Bullette like Roulette. Only with a B.

Roo - LEH - bit?

 

[Gentlegamer]

It's the Latin spelling of the Greek 'daimon', both pronounced die-mon. 'Demon' is a corrupt version of it (corrupt in the etymological sense ). It's a synonym of the Latin 'genius' which is similar to the Arabic 'djinni' which is why we have the word 'genie'. And although we don't use the orignal meanings of 'demon' or 'genius' anymore, we still have the concept in another classical word, 'muse'.

Now you've done it: you've unleashed my inner pedagogue!

This is also why you may see the phrase "you demonic man" as a form of praise in some translations of Plato's Republic.

 

[diaglo]

the Americans and the Brits don't agree on things.

pronounce: Adidas or Fillet.

 

[Ry]

It's stupid, but is it KO-BOLD, or kuh-BALD?

 

[JamesDJarvis]

Ixiyatlaa.....ucthcyattalattle...ichytattle...uh devilfish


Here isa D&D nightmare i actually endured: In jr high or early in highschool i was playing with a nerw group of players i hadn't been playing with before but they had been gaming toghtere for about 3 tears at that point. Well a couple of sessions into the campaing we eneded up in an encounter with an "OHGree" .... "oh no an OHGree" yelled the other players, "run! it'll squish us in one blow!!!"
"what is it i asked"? and "OHGree, run!!!"
"Waht does it look like" the dm replied "you don't know what and OHGRee is i thought you've plaued a lot?"
"I don't know what you are talking about, can my characetr see it ? What does it look like?"
"this OHGRee is an ugly giantish humanoid about 9 feet tall with a huge club"

"OHGree!!!???, what? would you mind spelling that?"

"what does how yuo spell it matter?" asked the DM

"fine i advance on it while everyone else is fleeing, how do you spell it?"

"O G R E" said the DM

"You mean Ogre, it is an Ogre, you guys have been calling them OHGrees? Uh haven't you ever heard the word Ogre before? Can't you read?" said i not endearing myself to the other players who i'd discover time and again were not the highest intellects i'd ever discover playing D&D.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

daemon.

I assume it should be pronounced "demon", but I pronounce it as dee-A-mon.

I pronounce it "dämon", like the German word for demon.

Na zdrowie*

Nastrovje. And it doesn't mean gesundheit AFAIK. It means "cheers" (you say it before you drink. Vodka, usually)

Rouge

roosh

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

The spelling doesn't realls suggest "shee", at least not in English (or German, for that matter)

 

[DMH]

It's stupid, but is it KO-BOLD, or kuh-BALD?

I use the first one and have never heard it pronouced the second.

 

[Tolen Mar]

I've only ever heard tarrasque pronounced tear-a-skew. Tear-ask seems silly.

No pronouning an s and a k sound as skew is silly...the only place I know of Que making the q sound is...well...Queue! and it has help to let you know thats its pronounced. Even there Que is a k sound, its the extra ue that gets the ew sound.

 

[The_Fan]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the first monster in the Monster Manual yet:

Achaierai (ache...aker...a big devil chicken!)