How should word "C'tis" be pronounced?

[Caerun]

Originally Posted by lch

The only one that I'm unsure about if I pronounce it correctly is R'lyeh.

You can't, unless you are something other than human. It is a word not meant for human vocal chords.

Silly man-things. You will learn how it truly sounds but only when it is too late.

[Foodstamp]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

I've been wondering about Tir na n'Og. That's one damn beast of a word.

Tirnoog?

Tirnaug?

Dominions isn't the first game I have played with that word. Another game I have played since 2001 also references it. I am pretty set in my ways on how I pronounce it as Tir-Na- Nog.

I also pronounce Cuchulainn as "Coo-cha-lane" but the correct pronunciation is "Coo-Hoo-Lan (lane?)".

What happens is I see a word, create a pronunciation for it and then I find out the real pronunciation later on, but it is too late as I am set in my ways.

For example, I used to pronounce Stipend like "Stip-end" when in reality it is "Stipe-end". Safe to say I was the source of much amusement for a know-it-all when I found out I was pronouncing it wrong.

[lch]

Originally Posted by vfb

I believe the correct pronunciation of R'lyeh is "oh-REE-lee". At least, that's what I keep hearing everyone around me saying. Damn cultists! Leave me alone.

I think I gave thanks for this for entirely different reasons than llama did.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Foodstamp

Dominions isn't the first game I have played with that word. Another game I have played since 2001 also references it. I am pretty set in my ways on how I pronounce it as Tir-Na- Nog.

I also pronounce Cuchulainn as "Coo-cha-lane" but the correct pronunciation is "Coo-Hoo-Lan (lane?)".

What happens is I see a word, create a pronunciation for it and then I find out the real pronunciation later on, but it is too late as I am set in my ways.

For example, I used to pronounce Stipend like "Stip-end" when in reality it is "Stipe-end". Safe to say I was the source of much amusement for a know-it-all when I found out I was pronouncing it wrong.

The difference between those that encounter a word by reading - and other's verbal usage...

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Foodstamp

For example, I used to pronounce Stipend like "Stip-end" when in reality it is "Stipe-end". Safe to say I was the source of much amusement for a know-it-all when I found out I was pronouncing it wrong.

You made me look this up, because I was actually curious if perhaps both pronunciations were considered valid.

I found something surprising.

Stiped comes from the Latin 'Stipendium'. Why is this so odd? Because Latin has no "ih" sound for I, yet we use it all the time in words derived from Latin - except in this case, we kept the original pronunciation.....

[Zeldor]

Foodstamp and Lingchih must be partly Slavians then :P Of course it's C, not some K. C like in hmm... well, C, but without that stupid English spelling. I cannot think of any word with hard C [but not K] in English, huh.

Anyway, how someone could say Kelts? That's huh, bizarre...

[Gokufan1988]

I pronounce Tir na n'Og as tear nah noag (no emphasis on the 'a') and R'Lyeh as ruh lie eh. I'm pretty confident about R'Lyeh but less so about tir.

Also bean sidhe I just pronounce banshee

[Lingchih]

Originally Posted by vfb

I believe the correct pronunciation of R'lyeh is "oh-REE-lee". At least, that's what I keep hearing everyone around me saying. Damn cultists! Leave me alone.

I'll be summoning Azathoth later tonite. I'l ask him the correct pronunciation, hopefully before he kills me.

[MaxWilson]

I pronounce R'lyeh phonetically: r[glottal stop]l-YEH. It sounds kind of like "rull-YEH" without the "u" in the middle.

-Max

P.S. How do you pronounce "Hastur"? "Hastr"? "HASS-ter"? "Has"--[glug]

[lch]

Originally Posted by Gokufan1988

Also bean sidhe I just pronounce banshee

Nice. I didn't notice this before. Quite probably they're really related.