WOTC, attention please

[Glyfair]

Does it really matter?

In fact, in a 'realistic' fantasy realm, there would almost certainly be competing pronunciations. Like E.N. World and Nworld.

True. In fact, in most "realistic" fantasy worlds pronunciation and spelling would vary widely.

 

[Nifft]

cow, not row

There's been quite a row about this one.

I prefer to say that they are pronounced as "bow", not "sow".

Cheers, -- N

 

[Reaper Steve]

There's been quite a row about this one.

I prefer to say that they are pronounced as "bow", not "sow".

Cheers, -- N

Yeah, I pronounced it rhyming with row/bow for almost 20 years. It was a few years ago that I saw it should rhyme with cow, and I'm mostly succeeded in retraining myself.

Really...I'd prefer a different name. Maybe its just worn thin over the last couple decades, but to me 'drow' (either pronouncation) doesn't convey "underdark-dwelling-spider-demon-worshipping-black-skinned-elves."

 

[DaveMage]

Please, please, please include a pronunciation guide for any words that cannot be found in the dictionary! When my wife and I were discussing the new races in the PHB, we got into a argument as whether the Tiefling rhymes whith Thief-ling or Fife-ling.

An excellent request!

 

[CleverNickName]

I kow that :
Yuan-ti is pronounced "YOO-on TEE" (from Aug previews)
Drow rhymes with cow, not row (don't remember where I saw it but I'm 100% sure
And I think Tiefling is "Teef-ling"

I remember back in that really lame, clunky, 'I can't believe I beat it in 1 hour' DOS game "Menzoberranzan," the recorded voice tracks always pronounced "drow" so that it rhymed with "cow" and "how" and "now." Not that a computer game should be the say-all, end-all guide to pronounciation, but it was a Forgotten Realms-endorsed product after all.

How now, brown drow?

*crickets*

Ahem...tough room. Anyway.

I don't know if it is right or wrong, but we have always pronounced "tiefling" like TIE-fling. As if one were throwing a necktie across the room or something. Tie fling.

Probably my most embarrassing mispronounciation blunder was with "chimera." I had always pronounced it "SHIM-er-uh" for some reason, and had made it all the way to college before my Western Civilization professor corrected me. (For the record, it is pronounced "kye-MEER-uh.)

 

[Tarek]

I pronounce it, "Not available in my campaign."

 

[Andalusian]

Yeah, I pronounced it rhyming with row/bow for almost 20 years. It was a few years ago that I saw it should rhyme with cow, and I'm mostly succeeded in retraining myself.

My wife and I got into a row over who should row the boat, so I shot a bow across the bow of our vessel.

 

[Nifft]

My wife and I got into a row over who should row the boat, so I shot a bow across the bow of our vessel.

Tie your bow and take a bow, someone got my joke.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Abstraction]

I hadn't thought of it before, but it seems that we are getting a race that either has a predilection for flinging ties, or tea. Tea-fling of Tie-fling. Either way, it seems appropriate for someone of demonic ancestry.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I believe the correct way to pronounce it is "tee-fling".