Most mispronounced monster names

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

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The most annoying thing I see and many people do it is Cthulu. It is like the second h is invisible to a percentage of the population. ..

Yeah, like 100%! Do you have some special Lovecraftian bifocals or sumthin?

 

[Grazzt]

No no. Rogue is the most mispelled class name in 3e/3.5.

Rouge is make-up you put on your cheeks, like so .

And yes, I knew what you meant.

LOL- correct you are. Yeah, what I meant to say was "rouge" is the result of the most mispelled class name (rogue) in 3e/3.5

 

[Prince Atom]

Okay, so how does the ^ over the "u" in Faerun change its pronunciation?

I used to say, FAY-run, oh so long ago. But since I got the FRCS, I've begun to say, fay-RUNE.

Is that right?

Oh, yeah, just to stay on-topic: I've got a group of players who will ALWAYS mispronounce any name I give to my NPCs. They're not disrespectful, it just kind of erodes. I had an elf-king once named Niall (knee-ALL) and he somehow became "NEW-all" over the course of several sessions.

That, and one of them always says, "port-ick-you-luss" instead of portcullis, and he spells it poision.

TWK

 

[VirgilCaine]

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

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

Ah-- Ah-choo
Kai--See the Star Trek Bajoran religious leaders
er-I. Simple.

 

[Aeolius]

...one of them always says, "port-ick-you-luss" instead of portcullis, and he spells it poision.

Great, now I have the song "Les Poissons" stuck in my head...

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Okay, so how does the ^ over the "u" in Faerun change its pronunciation?

I used to say, FAY-run, oh so long ago. But since I got the FRCS, I've begun to say, fay-RUNE.

Is that right?

I think it's fae-rynn

so no native English words have a "ü"

Not only that, but I can think of no english word that has the sound an ü stands for. So it's hard to explain.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Rouge is make-up you put on your cheeks

he does?

 

[davidschwartznz]

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

Kobold comes from the word 'cobalt', which, as I understand it, is German for copper. I'm not sure how English speakers came to use it as the name for another element, or what Germans call that element. Anyway, German miners would dig up what they thought was copper ore, but when it was smelted, what they got was something else which they called 'Devil's copper', or 'Nickel cobalt' in German (as in Old Nick), and English speakers call just 'nickel'. This bait-and-switch was blamed on mischevious cave spirits, which came to known in English as Kobolds. So, long story short ("Too late!"), it's pronounced kO-bald, like cobalt, but with a 'd' instead of a 't'.

PS The Tarasque went to a barbeque in Albuquerque.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Kobold comes from the word 'cobalt', which, as I understand it, is German for copper.

No, Kupfer is German for copper. Cobalt is English for Kobalt.

 

[woodelf]

Kobold comes from the word 'cobalt', which, as I understand it, is German for copper. I'm not sure how English speakers came to use it as the name for another element, or what Germans call that element. Anyway, German miners would dig up what they thought was copper ore, but when it was smelted, what they got was something else which they called 'Devil's copper', or 'Nickel cobalt' in German (as in Old Nick), and English speakers call just 'nickel'. This bait-and-switch was blamed on mischevious cave spirits, which came to known in English as Kobolds. So, long story short ("Too late!"), it's pronounced kO-bald, like cobalt, but with a 'd' instead of a 't'.

Dunno about that, but, as i've always heard it explained, the reason those particular nasty fae got named after the mineral (or, rather, the mineral was named after them, once they realized it was a distinct element), was that the kobolts were blamed for the injuries/sickness that the toxin later known as cobalt caused to the workers.