How do you pronounce....

[richardd]

Not a place, but an NM that I hear in a whole lotta different ways.

Charybdis = Ka-rib-dis

Most people pronounce it as: Chary-bib-dis

lol

i was lazy about him too

i called him cherry-bodis

[Vuitton]

Xarcabard- Xar ka bar

Byakko- Bee ha ko

Pso'Xja- Pso-ja

Beadeaux- Bo-Do

garlaige citadel- garbage shitadel

AlTaieu- Alli-tai-euh

Bostonieux oubliette - (im french so its easyli pronouncable) boss-to-ni-eu ou-bli-ette
uggalepih - ugg ha leuh pi

Everyone is showing it as pronounced as "Bo-Do", but wouldn't the "Bea" need to be "Beao" to be pronounced as such? "Bea" is just "Bee". Much like "Beau" from "Beautiful" is pronounced "Byu".

The linguistic pattern being that you pronounce the B, silent "ea", and pronounce the following vowel.

Beau = Byu (Beautiful)
Bea = Bee (Beads)
Beao = Boh (N/A)

The English language doesn't use the spelling of "Beao" to show the pronounciation of "Boh". Instead, it uses "Beau" and pronounces it as "Boh". So "Beau" in English is pronounced as both "Byu" and "Boh" depending on the word.

Is "Bea" really pronounced as "Beau" in French?

As for the rest:

Xarcabard = Zar - Ka - Bard

Byakko = Bya - Kko

Bya is known as a glide. Cha, Chu, Cho. Bya, Byu, Byo.

Kko uses a "glottal stop", glottal being the back of your tongue against the back of your throat. You do this when you say "ga" or "ko". For the stop, you begin to pronounce it, pause very briefly mid pronounciation, and then continue. Similar to dental stops like "putting", the stop is on the double-t.

Pso'Xja = So - Ja (the J sounding like a mix of Z and J)

Uggalepih = Oog - gah - leh - peh

[Michelob]

Everyone is showing it as pronounced as "Bo-Do", but wouldn't the "Bea" need to be "Beao" to be pronounced as such? "Bea" is just "Bee". Much like "Beau" from "Beautiful" is pronounced "Byu".

Beau, the French word meaning beautiful, is not pronounced "Byu" like the "beau" at the start of the english word "beautiful".

Beaudeux is clearly a French word and the beau is pronounced more like "Bow" as in bow and arrow.

[rex_garuda]

last time i checked, it's spelled Beadeaux, not Beaudeux

[Plow]

It's more like bew.

It's Beaudreaux without the r, which is also seen, and pronounced the same, as Boudreax.

[Michelob]

last time i checked, it's spelled Beadeaux, not Beaudeux

And you're right. I always confuse the spelling with Beaucedine. Beadeux is still French I believe, and I think it would be pronounced with the A being silent like bed-oh.

[rex_garuda]

I don't think "Bea" is pronounced the same as "Beau" In francais

[Michelob]

I don't think "Bea" is pronounced the same as "Beau" In francais

It's not.

[Plow]

this isn't french, this is se's bastardization

if anything it's bə, but bew is easier to explain >.>

[TheMuffinman]

Xarcabard - Sar-ka-bard
Byakko - Byah-kko
Pso'Xja - Pso-ja
Catoblepas - Kyuh-top-lepa
Beadeaux - Bo-do
Caedarva Mire - Kah-dare-va
Wajaom Woodlands - Wuh-ja-om
Beaucidine Glacier - Bao-ce-deen
Al'Taieu - Al-Teeu
Uleguerand Range - Oo-le-gyu-rand
Temple of Uggalepih - Yu-ga-lep-pi
Haubergeon - Haw-ber-xeon
Qufim - Kyu-feem
Mount Zhayolm - Zay-ohlm
Grand Palace of Hu'Xoi - Who-zoi
Konschtat Highlands - Con-shtat
Aragoneu - Ara-ga-no
Fauregandi - Foo-re-gandi
Jeuno - Joo-know? (do you?)
Li'telor Li-tell-or
Lumoria - Lou-more-iya
Sarutabaruta - Saru-ta-baru-ta
Tu'Lia - Two-liya
Aht Urhgan - Aat-urgan

Imo anyway.

And yes Plow, its kind of like Louisiana.

[Edward Fairfax Rochester]

WAR: War
MNK: Monk
THF: Thief
WHM: White Mage
BLM: Black Mage
RDM: Red Mage
PLD: Paladin
DRK: Dark
BST: Beast
BRD: Bard
RNG: Range
SAM: Sam
NIN: Nin
DRG: Drag
SMN: Summon
BLU: Blue
COR: Core
PUP: Pup
SCH: Scholar
DNC: Dance

Xarcabard: Zar-ca-bard
Beadeaux: Bee-dow
Konschtat Highlands: Konch-tat
Haubergeon: Haw-ber-jee-on
La Theine: La Thay-in

[Iraphine]

I know someone who use to say the most fucked up things...

Gil he would say Jill
my name, Hogie (Hoe-Gee, like the sandwich) he would say it as Hoe-G
He is also one of the people who says "Plaid-in"

Musta been Irish.

Also..

Is it Terru-Terru, or Taroo-Taroo?

Friend of mine said the first way, I was like like @_@!

[Sqwunk]

I didn't read any of the middle pages yet, but how do you guys say Qiqirn?

I say it like Chichirn

[edit] found this

kick-eern (Qiqirn) (Sometimes "kee-kee-urn".)

the reasoning for the way I say it is because when I see Qi I think of the chinese way of pronouncing it.

[Purrloin]

I didn't read any of the middle pages yet, but how do you guys say Qiqirn?

I say it like Chichirn

Qi, as in "R"odent
qi, as in "A"ctually a rodent
rn, as in "T"otally a rodent.

Pronounced "RAT."

[VZX]

What they don't realize is that every language is the same way, including their own. There are hundreds of sounds but most alphabets only have 15-50 characters to represent them.

Most people don't tend to notice it in their own language though.

I can say Japanese doesn't have it. If there's any exception, it's the "ga" that sounds like "nga" (it doesn't wrong if you don't make it sounds "nga" either) and silent vocal "u" in "su".

[Darus Grey]

I can say Japanese doesn't have it. If there's any exception, it's the "ga" that sounds like "nga" (it doesn't wrong if you don't make it sounds "nga" either) and silent vocal "u" in "su".

Yeah...no. When I said every, I meant every.

[Cantih]

There's also the regional dialects and habits of Japan.
iirc, in the Tokyo area, it's common to add a soft s sound at the beginning of an initial "hi"

If you listen closely to the Japanese language audio Escaflowne movie, Hitomi keeps getting called sHitomi. Sounds similar to how Shitow is pronounced in the english version of Raxephon.

So yeah, Darus is right. Hell, this even happens Esperanto and Lojban, and they are meant to be unambiguous languages.

[McGoonagle]

Kay toe blay pas (though honestly I just say Dhalmel in my head and ingame)

Be-doh

I'm probably way off on Beadeaux, but it's easier to say in my head that way!

I call it Botox or Bidet.

[richardd]

usukane

i called it

oo-sa-kan-ee

i heard some ppl called it oos-i-kane lol

[Nishida]

Anyone else feel they pronounce words worse after reading this thread? Some of the pronunciations people come up with don't even make sense, haha.