Pronunciation of Drow

[kkoie]

I have always said Droh. It just sounds better, drow as in cow... it sounds lazy. But just because the origonator of a word says its pronounced in a certain way, doesn't mean they are correct.

Take Melnibone. The correct pronounciation is Mel-ni-boney. However, myself and a friend prefer to pronounce it as Mel-nib-o-ney. Which when pronounced out loud... comes sounding far better and much more illustrious than Mel-ni-boney (say it quickly and you'll know what I mean).

(for those who'd like to know... I got the correct pronounciation from a friend who heard Moorcock on a radio show.)

 

[Bastoche]

I know its "cow" but I insist on pronouncing it as in "slow", simply because it sounds better.

TS

I pronounce it like "slow" in french, but like "cow" in english.

 

[Mirth]

As for the Bulette, well, if it isn't a French-derived word...

It sounds french, and the -tte at the end is a french female-gender suffix (in french even chairs have an associated gender, for it to sound right). We pronounce it as other words in french:

Bul (not as in Bull, but as in luxury) - Lette (as in to let, only with a longer t in the end, somewhat like lett)

so Bu-lett... the final e is silent. As for Bou-lay, well, french is sound based, and their are no lay (lé) before double consonants.

I think we agree on this point. What I meant is that Bulette in French would NOT be pronounced boo-LAY, but rather bu-LETT (as you have stated), so the boo-LAY pronunciation couldn't be derived from French (it could, however, be derived from a very bad understanding and mangling of French ).

Jay

 

[Cybern]

I agree that bou-lay could come out as mangled french.. though it is a surname here

Anyway, here we use so much wrangled english that we think its french. Windsheere, Hol Doys, you get wonderful and colorful language when you meet old mechanics...

Anyway, the worst wrangled english gaming word I hear is sword. I know it is "sord", not "ss-Word".

Another good one we used to laugh at, Twan. A new player in our group once said "I hit him with my twan!" The DM did not catch up, so he had to explain. It means Two-Handed Sword... Two-hand... tw-an. We used it so much that now it's part of our vocabulary.

 

[The Lemon Merchant]

I call 'em Darkies, but I'm also a racist bastard.

 

[Welverin]

"Throat Warbler Mangrove"

I can't vote because this isn't one of the options! I demand a recount!

I think it was in Balder's Gate that it pronounced it: Drow as in eyebrow

Of course they never once got Bhaal right so you can't exactly trust them, even though they got drow right.

 

[RangerWickett]

My personal favorite is that that variant gnoll, the flind, rhymes with "wind."

Think about it.

Anyway, I call my dark-skinned Elves either Taranesti or Kohalesti, depending on what region and culture they're from. The underground ones are the Taranesti, but they're actually more good-guy material than the surface varieties: the Innenlesti, Tundanesti, and Vaneljesti. A couple thousand years ago, an evil empire had a nation of light Elves in it who helped oppress the world, but it was a group of dark Elves who managed to kill the emperor, as vengeance for driving their people to the depths of the earth, away from the sun.

 

[rounser]

Drow, Trow and Troll are all sister words. "Troll" sounds a lot closer to "crow" than "cow", doesn't it?

Therefore, if you pronounce drow as rhyming with cow, you should also pronounce troll as "trowel". So there. 8)

 

[Hand of Evil]

Again I will point to the Jerry Lewis usage, early sixties, and he is loved by the French, so, drow as cow!

 

[BenBrown]

it's pronounced

drough