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Pokemon Mispronunciations

Discussion in 'Pokémon General' started by Achromatic, Dec 4, 2014.

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  1. Achromatic

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    Are there any Pokémon names that you mispronounce or get wrong? Are there any names you are confused about? Share with us here.

    This isn't a mispronunciation, but I always call Team Magma Team Maxie for some reason, haha.
     
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  2. Spammernoob

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    I've always wondered whether the "c" is hard or soft in Arceus. :/
     
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    I'm not sure if it's a mispronunciation, but I always call Kyogre Key-ogr-ee. I heard it in a Poke-rap, and thought "hey, why not call it that?" Though people think it weird when I do, because it's not the way they pronounce it.

    I dunno.
     
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  4. JirachiWish

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    When I was younger, I pronounced Pikachi as Pie-kachu

    Also, I have no idea how to pronounce Yveltal.


    I assume it's hard so that it sounds similar to "archaeic" and "archaeology"
     
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  5. Fantasma

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    i always call Sabley Sabeley
     
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  6. DIO

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    It was hard in the movie, pronounced "Ark-ee-us." I say screw that though, and pronounce it "Ar-sea-us."
     
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    its a hard c? WTF
     
  8. ShiroLugia

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    Omggg so manyyy

    I call Garbodor GarbAdor.
    Arceus, ArSEEus
    I sometimes call Mesprit MeSPIRIT
    I call Skarmory SkAmory (I leave out the R sob)
    And sometimes I say Ro-tom instead of Rowtome

    what is english help me please
     
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  9. DIO

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    Ohgawd, someone please teach me how to english too, I think I do all those things too except I pronounce Skarmory "Skymory." -_-
     
  10. Butternut

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    If you don't watch the anime and live in the Netherlands, you end up pronouncing a lot of Pokémon in a Dutch way xD Like Buizel and some others that I can't remember from the top of my head, but yeah I probably still mispronounce a lot.
     
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  11. Noctis

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    A lot of people in the Author's Guild got to experience first hand my mispronunciations of several Pokémon names. XD

    Oh man... there is a lot of them.
     
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  12. Halcyon Storm

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    You still pronounce Glalie wrong every time you say it -_-

    I used to mispronounce quite a few Pokémon names, especially Nidoking and Nidoqueen (I used to pronounce it as Nai-do-king/queen). I don't there there are any Pokémon whose name I still can't say correctly, although I never knew how to pronounce Milotic... Is it Mi-lotic or Mai-lotic? (It's always the i I seem to have trouble with...)
     
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    Oh yeah that's another one, I cannot pronounce that xD
     
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    I sometimes pronounce Milotic as Mill-oct-tic. I don't know why.

    I also say Sabley as SAY-bell-eye. I have no idea how you actually pronounce it, but that's what I say.

    And Arceus is ARK-ee-us to me. If you say the "c" soft is sounds like ARSE-y-us and that is not a name fit for the pokegod. xD
     
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    I've always been confused with Unown.
    Is it un-known or oo-noun or oo-known.
    Or I just call them the Poke-letters. Seems to get the point across :P

    And Beartic. It's not that I can't pronounce it, but just that I call it bear-arctic. Because I think it sounds better that way.
     
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    Everysingle person cannot lie to the fact that they say in a moment f thier life rayquaiza not rayquaza

    aside form that and arceus(who i know is a hard C but like gengar i prefer arCeus int he Pokédex it accualy says Arkees)i didnt missprounounce i only missspell lel

    its UN-OWN
     
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    In 4th grade, my friends and I used to talk about how it was pronounced "Arse-ee-us"
    We were so immature. T___T
     
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    I have such trouble pronouncing Rayquaza.
    Instead of Ray-QUAY-za, I say Ray-kwah-za.
    Really should fix that habit.
     
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    I know I pronounce these wrong
    Ampharos I pronounce as Am-PHAR-Ohs
    Tropius I pronounce as Tro-PHI-us
    I probably pronounce others wrong but I have most of them right because I watch the anime.
     
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    Ughh all the time haha. Pokémon pronunciations are so confusing, especially since even the anime can be inconsistent. (For example, I think they pronounce Bonsly as BON-zlee sometimes and BON-zlai other times.)

    There are so many that I have no idea how to properly pronounce, so many that I always see Poketubers pronounce differently than me, who knows haha.

    Some that immediately come to mind are:
    • Milotic - I used to pronounce it MY-low-tick but now I pronounce it mil-AW-tick, I've heard both ways...
    • Arceus - I pronounce it AR-see-us but I've also heard AR-kee-us.
    • Rattata - I pronounce it RAT-uh-taw but I've also heard ruh-TAT-uh
    • Audino - I pronounce it AW-din-oh but I've also heard aw-DEE-no and aw-DIE-no
    • Kyogre - I pronounce it kai-OH-ger, but I used to pronounce it kai-OH-gray and I've heard others pronounce it that way too.
    • Groudon - I pronounce it gr-OW-don but I used to have a friend who pronounced it GREW-don
    • Rayquaza - I pronounce it ray-QWAY-zuh but I've also heard ray-QWAH-zuh
    • Altaria - I pronounce it all-TAR-ee-uh but I've also heard all-TARE-ee-uh
    The list goes on and on and on! D:
     
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