In my interview for RPG Circus and a brief discussion occurred before the show over how to pronounce Wilderlands. My group and I pronounce it Wild-er-land. Many others pronounce it Will-der-lands.
One that we unwittingly mangled for several decades was Myrmidon.
This is how we pronounce the word.
Mer-ri-din
Then Dwayne of Gamer's Closet stumbles over a clip of Achilles addressing his Myrmidons in the movie Troy.
There the work is pronounced
Mer-mi-dons.
I guess we dropped that middle m and made it rhyme with Paladin.
I hope you find this humorous. Of course your group can pronounce it however you like.
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We used to mangle the word "scimitar", pronouncing it "schmiter" like "quiter"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Myrmidon
YOU HAVE TROUBLE TALK, IHAVE TRUOBLE RIGHTING!!!. (YOU ALSO HAVE TROUBEL RIGHT SOMETIME]
I've mispronounced so many words I've read in gaming materials (but never heard spoken). Lots of great vocabulary esp Gygax stuff.
Ogre one syllable "orge".
Knoll and gnoll as "ka-noll" and "ga-noll"
In my corner of the world, too many people pronounce "melee" as mee-lee, rather then mel-ay. Makes me think of those little mealy-bugs that you don't want in your flour.
How about facade? Mispronouncing that one caused me no end of embarrassment, as people wondered just what kind of assistance I was in need of.
Oops.
the mispronouncing thing is a very funny and common phenomenon. i've recently met a guy from us who claims that "klingon" is pronounced with a silent "g", something like [klyon].
Let's see -
chaos = Chay-oss
chimera = chi-mur-ah
paladin = pa-LA-din
And how the heck do people pronounce bulette?
we always pronounced in like "bew-let"
Ha! Chimera is one I still get wrong and didn't hear correctly until a couple years ago, I'm 39.
I once made the mistake of arguing chimera once with a very insistent player. Even after I pulled out the word's language of origin and the proper way to pronounce it given that linguisitc origin, he was still about to go to blows over it.
Sheeh...
Don't even get me started on Japanese words and some of the butchery I've heard there.
Back in high school some of the players used to pronounce scimitar as "schmiter" as a joke. I wonder if you're from my neck of the woods, jcftao? I suspect Glenn is too, as I don't think I have ever heard mee-lee pronounced as "mee-lay".
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