So...how do you pronounce it?

[Huw]

I go for the Aztec/Nahuatl pronunciation (with x=sh) as well. It looks Aztec anyway, even if nothing to do with Aztec mythology, and it's quite easy to say. I-shi-cha-chi-tl.

Who invented it anyway? Gygax?

 

[Branduil]

How do you pronounce Tarrasque?

 

[Tewligan]

I've never encountered one as a player nor used one as a GM. I suspect the difficulty in pronunciation is a contributing factor to this.

"Swimming rapidly toward you is a school of angry ixzit...uh, zikit...tikzik...screw it, you see a bunch of sharks. Whaddya do?"

 

[Heckler]

"Damned Devil-fish-men."

No, those are the sahag...

soga...

saga...

*sigh*

 

[Asmor]

No, those are the sahag...

soga...

saga...

*sigh*

Suh-wha-gin
OR
Suh-wog-gin

(that's a hard g at the end, like gun, not a soft g like, uh... gin)

 

[dragonlordofpoondari]

How do you pronounce Tarrasque?

I pronounce it to rhyme with "Bear-ask."

 

[der_kluge]

It rhymes with cow.

 

[Desdichado]

No, those are the sahag...

soga...

saga...

*sigh*

Ixit's---I try not to. Besides, evil intelligent manta rays? Dumb. So I don't use 'em, which means I don't have to care how they're pronounced.

We had a guy in our group that used to pronounce sahaugin as 'suh HOGGin'. Of course, the rest of us all made fun of him after that.

My personal D&D pronunciation demon is genasi. I never can figure out how to say it; I usually go with 'JEN uh sai'.

 

[Heckler]

We had a guy in our group that used to pronounce sahaugin as 'suh HOGGin'. Of course, the rest of us all made fun of him after that.

I usually give up and go for "Fish People."

"You know, the ones that aren't Locath..."

"Loco..."

"Loquacious..."

"Who's got a Monster Manual!"

 

[migo]

"That weird-arse manta ray thing that nobody knows how to pronounce."

Seriously, I'm hopeless with pronunciation. We were calling liches "likes" for ten years because nobody told us it rhymed with "itch."

That's actually closer to the German it's probably derived from than "Litch" - the German "ch" is either like a fricative k or a glotal sh - either way k and ch are equally far away, and the "eye" sound is closer than the "ih" (keep in mind this is filterd through my mish-mash of 3 Swiss dialects - I'm going from the Swiss pronunciation and converting it to what is usually a consistent Swiss->German pronunciation change, so it might be a bit off).