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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Someone tries to class up something by "pronouncing it poshly". Most commonly this is done as a response to other people pronouncing the word in such a way that it sounds much sillier. Whether the fancy pronunciation or the obvious yet silly one is "correct" is usually beside the point. The point is, that for some people, keeping a name filled with aristocratic airs is Serious Business. This practice likely originated (at least as far as we know) in the Middle Ages among upper class families who had common surnames and didn't want to be associated with their lowly upbringing. The Featherstone-Haughs, for example, were named for a poor farming village, so in order to make themselves sound posher they changed the pronunciation of the name to "Fanshaw". Usually the "high-class pronunciation" uses French pronunciation, with varying accuracy. Today this is probably because Everything Sounds Sexier in French and as we all know sexy people can't be made fun of. The original reason for this is likely because from the 17th century all the way until the mid 20th century, French was considered the Common Tongue of European diplomacy.note Also, the Norman Conquest in the 11th century meant that a substantial fraction of the English nobility did have French (well, Norman, so Frenchish) names and ancestors who spoke French. This also established a certain "rich French conquerors" vs. "common English conquered" tradition in the languages as they combined towards modern English. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This trope is related to the linguistic phenomenon known as hyperforeignism. May overlap with My Nayme Is but not every name that's pronounced differently than its spelling would indicate is this trope. Compare also with AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle, You Say Tomato (where people argue about how to say a word) and Insistent Terminology, with which it sometimes overlaps. Merely pronouncing one's name correctly for someone is Pronouncing My Name for You, not this trope. An interesting fact: Saint Tropez actually is pronounced Tro-pay. "Trope" isn't, though, obviously. Please Note: Before adding an example, make sure that the person(s) doing it are doing it specifically to make the word sound posher and not because they are mistaken how the word is pronounced, eg. Nuclear/Nukular. Contrast No Pronunciation Guide. See also Uranus Is Showing. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) |
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Mi-Tse (villain from German comic Nick Knatterton) is not pronounced "Mieze" (typical name for cats in Germany; an approximate English equivalent would be "Puss"). | |
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Megamind seems to have this as something of a Verbal Tic. Most notably, he pronounces Metro City as "Metrocity" (rhymes with atrocity) and School as Shool. Well, he is an alien, and one who was kicked out of school pretty early. | |
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In Finding Nemo, Dory reads the word "escape" on the hatch of the submarine but pronounces it as "Ess-ka-pay". | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Bunnie's last name "Rabbot" was always referenced by her cybernetic limbs. However, over 200 issues later, it was revealed to be her actual family name, pronounced "Ra-BEUX", by her uncle Beauregard. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: The X in the word "ZEXAL" is silent in the Japanese version since it's supposed to be the word "zeal". Other dubs just ignore this fact. | |
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Drag queen Pabllo Vittar has made clear her birth name Phabullo is pronounced the same as her stage one. | |
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From Sluggy Freelance, we have Dr Hot-Chick: "It's pronounced HAUGHT-SHEIK!" | |
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The Irate Gamer goes by the name Chris Bores (he typically pronounces it "boar-es" rather than the expected pronunciation). | |
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Hellboy's father. His name is Professor Trevor Bruttenholm. It's pronounced 'Broom.' | |
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In Shrek the Third, when Shrek and Donkey are going to find the young Arthur. | |
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In Umineko: When They Cry, French readers are usually baffled when they hear Ange's name pronounced "enjeh". You normally pronounce it ɑ̃ʒ, which in Japanese would be rendered "anju" (no, not that one). | |
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In Pokemon Opal And Garnet, Kaylie's Touceet Clopin (named after that Clopin) gets his name continually mispronounced as "klop-pin," with English pronunciation. Clopin is always quick to correct them with the (correct) French pronunciation, "kloh-PAH~n," which ends in a French nasal vowel. Since so many Pokémon have trouble with said nasal vowel, he'll usually accept "kloh-PAH (without the nasality)," but also tell them exactly how the nasal vowel is supposed to be pronounced note What follows is an APPROXIMATION — there is no sound like this in English. If you know French or are French and are offended in any way by this explanation, we apologize in advance : | |
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Make no mistake, Victor Fries' last name is pronounced "Freeze" (off-topic, but just like Charles Fries of Fries Entertainment). Didn't stop Gotham from pronouncing it as in "french fries", though. | |
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Ashley McFly/Leather Ashes from Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy. The "Leather" in "Leather Ashes" was originally pronounced with "lee-ther" instead of the usual "leh-ther". | |
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The name of Simon, the main character of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, is pronounced "see-moan", similar to the feminine Simone, and "shi-moan" in the original Japanese version. In the original ADV dub, his name is pronounced like the normal, masculine Simon. | |
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In Cucumber Quest, it's not Peri-DOT, it's Peri-DOH! | |
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In his review of Threshold, he explained how you pronounce niche in American English. And if some biche doesn't like it... well that's their problem. | |
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GaMetal is an inversion: In both the official bio and the music video for Revenge Of Meta Knight, it's heavily implied that Gay Metal is the one way that you cannot pronounce it. | |
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Carmine Falcone's last name as a similar issue with Ra's, though — Batman Begins, the Animated Adaptation of Batman: Year One, the Batman: Arkham Series, and Batman: The Telltale Series pronounced it "Fal-cone-e", whereas Gotham and Justice League Action pronounced it as it looks ("Fal-cone"). Not helping matters is that Frank Miller, Falcone's creator, hasn't commented on it and even David Goyer, who helped write Begins even used "Fal-cone" on a featurette when talking about influences. Begins's sequel, The Dark Knight, also sees Harvey Dent use "Fal-cone" instead of ''Fal-con-e", but that also might've been a flub, both in-universe by Harvey and out by Aaron Eckhart and the crew. | |
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Similarly with "lasgun" or "lascannon", most say "Laz", but a few go by the root of "Laser" and pronounce them as "Layz-guns". This was noted among some gaming communities as a point of contention in the otherwise well-received Dawn of War series, where Imperial Guardsmen mentioned "Layzguns", although not as egregious as the pronouncing of the Greek word "Chimera" as "Shimmerer"... Considering this is the series that gave us mightily hamtastic characters with speech impediments talking about "SPESS MEHREENS" and "MEHTAL BAWKSES", Dawn of War pronunciations can usually be taken with a hefty pinch of salt. |
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The host of That Puppet Game Show is Dougie Colon, who insists on his surname being pronounced "Cologne". Ian the Armadillo always pronounces it "Colon", and is convinced that Dougie finds this endearing. | |
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In Hercules, during the song "Zero to Hero", two of the muses argue of the pronounciation of "vase" ("They slapped his name of every vase..." "On every VAH-se!"). The first muse responds by clonking the other one over the head with it. | |
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Pop/Buddy does this all throughout We Will Rock You, most memorably with "Harley-Davidson" and "video tape". | |
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Happens in Hoodwinked! when Twitchy pulls out the dynamite and goes "Dee-na-mee-tay. Hmm, must be Italian." | |
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An issue of The Batman Adventures had Commissioner Gordon seeking out a crime informant named "Wiesel". Gordon, like every other character this man had ever encountered, pronounces the name to rhyme with "weasel". He tries to tell Gordon that the accent is on the second syllable, but gets cut off. | |
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In Red vs. Blue Reconstruction, a soldier sent to retrieve Caboose is named Jones, however, his commander pronounces it "Jo-ah-nes", annoying Jones ("It's a really common name!"). Later in Recreation, CT tells one of his mooks "Great shot Jones!"; the mook responds "Thanks, but it's actually pronounced Jo-ah-nes, Sir!". | |
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A running gag in The LEGO Ninjago Movie is that Lord Gamaron insists that the proper pronunciation for Lloyd is "Luh-Loyd" and gets annoyed when anyone tries to correct him. | |
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DROELOE is pronounced “drew-lou” or “drü-lü,” not “dro-low.” (It means “wasted” in Dutch.) The most common English pronunciation of it is the latter, though, and it’s enough of a misconception that they’ve made shirts with “Pronounced Drew-Lou” on them. | |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim: A quick gag at the start of Season 2 establishes that the Tallest have a long-standing argument over the proper way to pronounce "caramel". Red thinks it's "car-a-mel", while Purple is sure it's "car-mel". | |
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Wicked: "My name is GAH-linda, with a GAH!" (and later, ""In honor of Dr. Dillmond, I officially change my name! From now on, I will be known as Glinda, without the GAH, because that's how he always pronounced it.") | |
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In The Order of the Stick's prequel book Start of Darkness, Big Bad Xykon repeatedly corrects people who spell his name "Zykon"... even in their speech balloons. It's possible that the two names actually are pronounced differently, though. | |
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Turn Signals on a Land Raider: "Is it 'laz'? Or 'layz'?" | |
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Conversely, there is the British WWE cruiserweight wrestler Jack Gallagher where the second G is silent (which is actually the correct, Irish way to pronounce Gallagher.) | |
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Transformers vs. G.I. Joe has Mad Scientist Dr. Venom, who insists his name is pronounced in German style like "Phe-nom". | |
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Sam & Fuzzy: "It's Too-che-sto-nay instead of Touch Stone." | |
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Writer Christopher Priest added a recurring character named Dr. Vilain during his run on Steel. The doctor wasn't really evil, just ruthless, and would constantly remind people. "It's French, it's pronounced 'will-HAYN'". Of course, it's not pronounced like that in French. For the record, "vilain" does exist in French, but an accurate translation would be something like "naughty" or "ugly" (or even "peasant"), not exactly fitting for an evil alias. Both "Vilain" and "Villain" are real-life surnames in Francophone countries; the most notorious bearer of the "ll" form was Raoul Villain, who assassinated French socialist and pacifist leader Jean Jaurès on 31 July, 1914. | |
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In the Black Legion novels, the main character's name is written as Iskandar Khayon but pronounced "Sekhandur Caine". | |
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Inanimate Insanity II: When MePhone claims he is cured of his condition, Test Tube is quick to let him know it's pronounced conditi-ON, the way Tissues says it. | |
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Done in Dragon Ball Z Abridged with Freeza and Trunks. | |
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EVA Sessions: Someplace Vast and Dry: Shinji's bodyguard Hunter Vaas insists that his name is pronounced XOON-ter. Justified as he is a Afrikaner (white South African descended from Dutch settlers). | |
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A running joke in the "Jack and Dean" videos involves Dean pronouncing Facebook "Fack-ee-book" for the sole purpose of annoying Jack. | |
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In the American dub of Tokyo Majin, the Shogunate is pronounced "SHO-goo-na-tay" instead of "SHO-goon-nate". The dubbers mistook an English word for a Japanese. | |
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In Retsupurae, a running gag is that Slowbeef will pronounce Mario's name "Mehrio", and has sometimes "corrected" himself when pronouncing it in the conventional manner. | |
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In Warriors Kingdoms: The Prophecy Begins, Graie makes sure that Ross knows his name isn't "Gray". | |
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In the last episodes of The Strangerhood it's revealed that Nikki's name is actually pronounced Nik-kay. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The bulette, whose name was allegedly "pronounced Boo-lay." If it were really a French word, that is exactly how it wouldn't be pronouncednote -ette is a feminine ending pronounced exactly like it looks. "Bulette" would be pronounced like bullet, but with emphasis on the second syllable - bul-LET. It's also not French for bullet, incidentally, that's balle. Apparently, it's now back to being the "bullet", but , as the person who wrote the 2nd Edition caption was being pretentious. In his last podcast before he left Wizards of the Coast, Dave Noonan joked that he pronounces it "land shark". There are also the evil fish-men called the sahuagin, which is frequently pronounced "sa-HWA-gin" but is officially (according to the sourcebook The Sea Devils) supposed to be "sa-HOO-a-gin". Also in the Monstrous Manual are the tabaxi, panther-like humanoids who are pronounced "ta-BAX-ee" or "tah-BAHSH-ee" depending on the clan. Writers for D&D tend to have lots of pronunciation misconceptions. It's listed in the Player's Handbook that the coup de grace action (correctly pronounced coo-duh-grahss, meaning strike of mercy) should be pronounced "coo-day-grah" (translated roughly as "bowl of fat"). You'd think they would check before printing it in the book. Not to mention that this particular mistake has been repeated over several editions of the game. One LARP system dealt with the constant mispronunciation by introducing "coo-de-grah" as an actual call (as well as coup de grace) — effect: "your target is covered in butter and cannot be grappled for the remainder of combat, now stop being a moron and get your calls right!" Sadly this rule was open to abuse and had to be removed. |
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When Fandango first debuted he refused to wrestle against anyone unless people pronounced his name right (Fahn-Dahn-Gohh, not Fan-Dang-Oh). He even corrected the ring announcer after he had taken a savage beating! | |
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In the anime of Sword Art Online, when Kirito first sees the name of A Lfheim Online, he pronounces it ALF-haym. Later on, his friend informs him that it's actually pronounced "ALV-haym", with the F being pronounced as a V. | |
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In Frozen, the Duke of Weselton insists it is pronounced "Wessel-ton" when everyone pronounces is "Weasel-town". Later inverted in Zootopia, which features a character named Duke Weaselton who corrects others who pronounce it "Wessel-ton". Bonus points for the fact that both characters are voiced by Alan Tudyk. | |
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Batman Make no mistake, Victor Fries' last name is pronounced "Freeze" (off-topic, but just like Charles Fries of Fries Entertainment). Didn't stop Gotham from pronouncing it as in "french fries", though. Now if only we can resolve whether it's "RAYSH" or "RAZZ"-al-Ghul. Word of God pronounces it "RAYSH" on one of the DC animated movie special features. And in this case, it's the character's actual creator: Denny O'Neil. And yet, the actual Arabic pronunciation is "RAZZ," which makes things confusing. Batman Begins follows this loosely and goes with "RAHZ". The people at DC are confusing the word "Ra's" with the letter "Resh", which is not even used in the spelling. Considering the character is from the Middle East/South Asia, has a name that is an actual Arabic phrase (with both correct spelling and grammar) and the foreign letter (represented by a ' in western writing) is barely audible when followed by a consonant,note The character (called the Hamza), is pronounced like a click in the throat and is mainly used to separate vowels the same way the letter N does in the English phrase "an apple". pronouncing his name as "Raysh" is comparable to calling a South American character "el Hombre Roja" and pronouncing his name as "Al Khom-bre Row-ya". Carmine Falcone's last name as a similar issue with Ra's, though — Batman Begins, the Animated Adaptation of Batman: Year One, the Batman: Arkham Series, and Batman: The Telltale Series pronounced it "Fal-cone-e", whereas Gotham and Justice League Action pronounced it as it looks ("Fal-cone"). Not helping matters is that Frank Miller, Falcone's creator, hasn't commented on it and even David Goyer, who helped write Begins even used "Fal-cone" on a featurette when talking about influences. Begins's sequel, The Dark Knight, also sees Harvey Dent use "Fal-cone" instead of ''Fal-con-e", but that also might've been a flub, both in-universe by Harvey and out by Aaron Eckhart and the crew. |
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The GoAnimate text-to-speech engines mispronounce Caillou's name as "Kaeloo". | |
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Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls absolutely loves making this joke in regards to Louisville (see below in the Real Life section). Pretty much everyone gets Louisville's name pronounced wrong, including her two older sisters Northampton and Chester. Just see yourself. | |
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The blaxploitation-satire movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka had a TV ad with classical music and a PBS-grade announcer presenting it as a highbrow art film with the title "I Am Going to Get You, Sucker". | |
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When pronouncing ".GIF" ("giff" or "jiff"?), PBS Idea Channel prefers "ʒɑɪf". | |
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In Avalon, the main character is from Scotland and moves to Canada. Her name is spelled Ceilidh, but pronounced Kay-lee. Hilarity ensues. | |
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In Ruddigore, Robin Oakapple's real first name is always pronounced "Rivven" except once, in the second act opening song: | |
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The Last Days of FOXHOUND has the pronounced as "Byoot-fick", Tennessee (they ain't foolin' nobody). | |
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Schlock Mercenary. The AI 5er0 get very upset when people pronounce his name as "Zero". His name is pronounced "Vernon" (the "5" replaces the Roman numeral "V", the "0" is pronounced "none"), thankyeverymuch. | |
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In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao snaps "It's pronounced Tsow Tsow" at Mi Heng. How Mi Heng mispronounced his name is not explained, but it was probably "Cow Cow". | |
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Origin vocalist Jason Keyser proclaimed on episode 194 of the MetalSucks podcast that his last name is pronounced "Kai-Ser", comparing the pronunciation to Keyser Soze from Se7en. It's not clear if brother Joe, the bassist for Skinless, uses this or the more expected "Key-Ser". | |
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Dan Severn 's second name is pronounced "Sev-run" (it's a variant spelling of Severin). Commentators occasionally mess this up. | |
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In the Marvel Mangaverse, Benjamin Grimm's first name is pronounced as it is in Hebrew: "Ben-ya-MEEN". Johnatha insultingly emphasizes the pronunciation with an eyeroll whenever she talks about him; maybe she's sick of being corrected. | |
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Spider-Man goes out of his way to point out you gotta "pronounce" the hyphen so it's two words ("Spider Man") and tends to get up in arms whenever someone pronounces it as one whole word (Spiderman). Apparently, it makes it seem like a Jewish last name or something to that effect. | |
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In-universe example in "You're Not in Kansas Anymore" by Jo Dee Messina: "I wanna be the first to tell you / Here we say ro-day-onote as in Rodeo Drive, not ro-dee-o." | |
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At Bonnie's place in Toy Story 3, when Woody shows the inscription "Andy" on his boot sole to the other toys, he presents it upside down. Bonnie's toys wonder: | |
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In Haibane Renmei, one character corrects the fact that Rakka refers to him as Hiyoko, pointing out it's "Hyohko", with exaggerated emphasis on the "oh" sound to make the pronunciation difference clear. | |
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Syuri, former Karate Girl of the New Generation Fighting Opera HUSTLE Army, is always called "Shuri" by the announcers, even though she spells it Syuri on her own Facebook page. (crowd chants are more often the way it is spelled too) | |
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During The Angry Video Game Nerd's review of various Beavis and Butt-Head games, he wonders what kind of parents would ever name their child "Butt-head", speculating that perhaps they intended it to be pronounced "Buh-theed". Later, after finally figuring out what to do for a minor Guide Dang It! moment, he sarcastically quips "Silly me! I'm such a shi-theed!". | |
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Ghost Rider: Heaven's on Fire features an Antichrist who actually goes by Anton Satan, pronouncing it [ʃatan] ("Shuh-TAN") like Miroslav Šatan of the Boston Bruins and Slovakia. | |
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Nightvee: As noted on page 4 of Issue 1, "MKR" is pronounced "Maker". | |
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In the Crystal Kingdom-arc of The Adventure Zone, the gang meets a dwarf named Boyland (pronounced as "boy-land"), which they find hysterical. In the next episode, Griffin tells them that Boyland was named after one of their fans, who clarified that his name is actually pronounced "boy-luhnd". However, real-life Boyland found the mispronunciation incredibly funny, so he gave them permission to continue using it. | |
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Deborah (of Junior Officers)'s name is pronounced "de-bo-rah", not "de-brah". Word of God says this is to make her name stick out a little more. | |
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Subverted with Dragon Gate wrestler Gamma, who writes his name in foreign letters but not in all caps. | |
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William Barfée ("it's Bar-FAY") from the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee often has his name mispronounced as "Barfy", and he is always quick to correct such instances. | |
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: Inverted with Kowalski's special invention for the getaway car. Gloria certainly knows how to pronounce the word, but Skipper knows what it really is. As if that makes it any better... | |
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In Shimmer, Nikki Stormnote Nikki Cross in WWE NXT is never satisfied with how the ring announcer (or anyone else, including fellow Glaswegian Kay Lee Ray) pronounces "GLASGOW, SCOTLAND!", and insists on demonstrating how to do it properly. | |
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In the native land of Japan, BABYMETAL is actually pronounced "beh-BEE-me-TAL". | |
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The name DiBiase (as in both generations of WWF wrestlers named "Ted DiBiase") is always pronounced "dee bee-yah-see" by announcers and commentators (which raises the question of just why the "i" and the "e" are being pronounced exactly the same way). It actually should be pronounced "dee bee-yah-seh", but don't expect anyone not a stickler for pronunciation of the Italian language to ever do so. | |
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The Cyantian Chronicles: Various Cyantian characters use odd pronunciations for their names. Chatin = Sha-Teen not Satin. Cilke = Sil-Kay not Silk (Cilke doesn't mind getting called Silk, because it's such a pretty fabric.) Chrome = K-Ro-May not Chrome, though he doesn't mind the alternate pronunciation. Cardde = Kar-Day not Card. Calle = Kal-ay not Cal Syrys = Sigh-russ or Cyrus not Sir-iss |
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In a story from The Book of Pooh called "Chez Piglet," Rabbit convinces Piglet to open a restaurant called Chez Piglet, pronounced "Chay Piglay." He sings a song about all of the dishes being served at the restaurant, ending with "peanut butter and jel-lay." | |
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Stephan in Pokémon: Best Wishes wants you to know it's "Stef-AHN", not "Steven" or "STEPH-an." He had this problem in the original Japanese, where his name was Kenyan. "Keniyan" was the most common mispronunciation. Somehow they didn't have any trouble with the mouth flaps when translating this even though "Keniyan", unlike "Kenyan" or any of his dub names, has three syllables. | |
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Basic Instructions once did a strip entitled "How to Pronounce 'Oregon'", including the statement "You can remember it by thinking 'I'll defend myself with a knife OR A GUN'" and claiming that the "OR-eh-GONE" pronunciation was wrong. | |
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Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams insisted on the traditional English pronunciation of his first name, which is "RAFE" (rhymes with "safe"). According to his wife Ursula, he would be infuriated if people pronounced it any other way. | |
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As very little guidance (save various video games) exists to the pronunciation of a variety of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 names, players tend to call them as they see them. There has been some debate of the pronunciation of the Chaos God Tzeentch, with most people agreeing it to be a single syllable with a "tz'" hissing sound following by "zeentch" (as if the speaker were going to say "Zeentch", but had their tongue in a position to make a "T" sound), but others pronounce it "TER-zeentch", "Teh-ZEENTCH", "Teh-ZENCH", "Zench" or "Tench" in rough order of reading ability. As far as Tzeentch goes, it's explicitly said in various fluff sources that (in both fantasy and 40K) different cults and cultures have different pronunciations — indeed often different names — for the different Chaos gods. Which, makes sense, given that they're the gods of freakin' Chaos. Similarly with "lasgun" or "lascannon", most say "Laz", but a few go by the root of "Laser" and pronounce them as "Layz-guns". This was noted among some gaming communities as a point of contention in the otherwise well-received Dawn of War series, where Imperial Guardsmen mentioned "Layzguns", although not as egregious as the pronouncing of the Greek word "Chimera" as "Shimmerer"... Considering this is the series that gave us mightily hamtastic characters with speech impediments talking about "SPESS MEHREENS" and "MEHTAL BAWKSES", Dawn of War pronunciations can usually be taken with a hefty pinch of salt. Apparently the Death World of Catachan is pronounced "cat-a-can". No idea why. The Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilleman is a frequent offender, with fabulously diverse opinions on pronunciation. Row-boat-ay Gilly-man? Row-boot Guh-ill-eh-man? Robert Gilman? That said, how the name of the Dark Angel's Primarch Lion El'Jonson should be pronounced without making it sound almost exactly like the rather ordinarily-named "Lionel Johnson" he is named after is anyone's guess. In the Black Legion novels, the main character's name is written as Iskandar Khayon but pronounced "Sekhandur Caine". |
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Norman Smiley of WCW once insisted that, since he was British, his last name should be pronounced "Smee-LAY". Especially ridiculous since the British pronunciation of that name is, in fact, exactly the same as the American. | |
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Inverted in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, where the classily named Kaiba Corp Grand Prix tournament (normally pronounced Grande Pree) is deliberately pronounced Grand Pricks. This is because when Kaiba was fishing for a tournament name, he asked Roland for a name that "had the Kaiba brothers written all over it." | |
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For Meat Shield, a list of pronunciation is provided on the work's page. | |
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An interesting case is played with Shingo Takagi. His name is written with kanji in Japan, but ROH billed as SHINGO apparently just because. However, this change is not as random as it looks: Shingo was an apprentice member of the late stable Crazy MAX, whose members were usually required to change their names to an all caps one, and albeit he never did it because the group disbanded before he were ascended, he would have do it eventually. | |
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One rather memorable sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus had Graham Chapman play noted plastic surgeon Raymond Luxury Yacht, who prefers his named pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove". | |
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In Digimon Universe: App Monsters, Cameramon, as in a camera-based Appmon for recording or capturing images, and his sensitivity about the pronunciation of his name. | |
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Composer Richard Wagner's name is pronounced "REE-hard VAHG-ner". | |
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PlayStation Access: To them, the word "cliche" sounds like a snooty way someone would insist you say a last name. | |
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Nerd³ regularly mispronounces certain words deliberately (usually). Regulars include pronouncing gym as 'gime', and refusing to learn the correct pronunciation of 'cassowary' in his Far Cry 3 Let's Play. | |
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Quite a few names are mispronounced in the English dub made by Funimation. For example, Goku (pronounced "GO-koo") in the dub, is actually pronounced "go-KOO". Saiyan is pronounced "say-an" in the dub, despite the actual pronunciation being "sigh-ya" (similar to the word "cyan", but the "a" is pronounced differently). One more infamous example among fans was the Kaio-Ken being mispronounced in almost every dub as "K.O. Ken" rather than "keye-oh ken" (as the attack is named after the character King Kai); this error is eventually amended in the dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai, fittingly enough. | |
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In H.M.S. Pinafore the first name of the character Ralph Rackstraw is pronounced Rafe, as was usual in the UK. (The name is rhymed with "waif" in "A many years ago.") | |
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Hellblazer: John's last name is pronounced Constan-TYNE ("rhymes with 'fine'") in keeping with the British pronunciation, not the American Constan-TEEN that many fans often use. This gets a bit muddled when you consider the movie adaptation switched his nationality to American which means it should be pronounced Constan-TEEN for purposes of the film. Even more confusing is that the TV version of the character, who is British, also uses the Constan-TEEN pronunciation. |
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From Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Goodwin is supposed to be pronounced as "Gohd-win", causing fan translators to spell it as "Godwin" which sounds similar, but Goodwin's name has a long O, not a short O. This is Lost in Translation when the official dubs pronounce his name as "Gud-win", pronouncing the double O as in "book". Also, in the Japanese dub, "signer" is pronounced phonetically, like SIG-nurr. In the English dub, it's pronounced "sigh-nurr", like the English word. The Earthbound Immortal cards have a hard time with this, since they're named after the Quechua words for things, and therefore pronounced in the Quechua way. Most of them are roughly phonetic, except for Ccapac Apu (Koh-ka-pack Ah-poo), Ccarayhua (Koh-ka-RYE-ah), Chacu Challhua (CHACK-oo CHALL-oo-ah) and Wiraqocha Rasca (WEER-a-KOCH-a RASS-kah). |
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In The Wotch, we have big bad Lord Xaos, pronounced Chaos. | |
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Old-school announcer Gordon Solie, trying to class things up, would pronounce "Suplex" as "Souplay". (It's pronounced "souplay" in amateur wrestling, partly because of the sport's European origins.) | |
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Now if only we can resolve whether it's "RAYSH" or "RAZZ"-al-Ghul. Word of God pronounces it "RAYSH" on one of the DC animated movie special features. And in this case, it's the character's actual creator: Denny O'Neil. And yet, the actual Arabic pronunciation is "RAZZ," which makes things confusing. Batman Begins follows this loosely and goes with "RAHZ". The people at DC are confusing the word "Ra's" with the letter "Resh", which is not even used in the spelling. Considering the character is from the Middle East/South Asia, has a name that is an actual Arabic phrase (with both correct spelling and grammar) and the foreign letter (represented by a ' in western writing) is barely audible when followed by a consonant,note The character (called the Hamza), is pronounced like a click in the throat and is mainly used to separate vowels the same way the letter N does in the English phrase "an apple". pronouncing his name as "Raysh" is comparable to calling a South American character "el Hombre Roja" and pronouncing his name as "Al Khom-bre Row-ya". | |
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Homestar Runner Strong Bad does this constantly when reading his e-mails. He did this for Illinois ("Eel-ee-nwah"). He also calls Texas "Tejas", pronounces "California" the Spanish way, etc. "Eel-ee-nwah" is pretty much how it's pronounced in French, though. It's a French adaptation of an Algonquin word. The silent 's' was definitely added by the French. It was probably pronounced something like "Eel-ee-nee-weh". He also (at least once) pronounced Ohio "OH-HEE-OH". This could be a subtle, running gag about him making just as many goofs as he corrects in his SB-Emails or a part of his oft-childish personality and his accent. In another episode he read "Kelly, USA" as "Kelly Usa" and referred to her as an "exotic lady from the far east". In "Donut Unto Others", Bubs deliberately invokes this trope by having his mass-produced doughnuts shipped from a third-world country named "Homemáde" (pronounced "Ho-muh-mah-day") just so he could legally print "From Homemade" on his boxes, allowing unsuspecting customers to make their own assumptions. |
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Rifts has an alien race called the Xiticix. The books state it is meant to be pronounced "zeye-TICK-icks," but gaming groups (as well as many staff members at Palladium Books) almost never get the pronunciation right. As an example, Kevin Siembieda mentioned that his father called them "City Chicks." Siembieda has said that he dislikes the name himself, but they were named by the artist who did the concept art for them, so he kept it. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Quite a few names are mispronounced in the English dub made by Funimation. For example, Goku (pronounced "GO-koo") in the dub, is actually pronounced "go-KOO". Saiyan is pronounced "say-an" in the dub, despite the actual pronunciation being "sigh-ya" (similar to the word "cyan", but the "a" is pronounced differently). One more infamous example among fans was the Kaio-Ken being mispronounced in almost every dub as "K.O. Ken" rather than "keye-oh ken" (as the attack is named after the character King Kai); this error is eventually amended in the dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai, fittingly enough. A rather strange case exists with Demon King Dabura. In the original it's actually pronounced "DAB-rah", with the "u" silent like it is in many actual Japanese names, because it's based on the famous "Abracadabra" incantation. Most official English sources romanize the name as "Dabra" to make this clear, and even Bruce Faulconer initially called him "Doubler" in the Faulconer Productions team's soundtrack music titles because that's kind of what it sounds like; however, the Funimation dub, presumably mistaking the "u" as being more pronounced than it was, began saying his name as "dah-BOO-rah", and despite correcting most other mistakes, have mostly stuck with that. |
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John Cena is partly of Italian descent, and his last name, which means "supper", should really be pronounced "Chayna". But Santino Marella, who in Kayfabe is an Italian national, has been the only one to not pronounce it "Seena". | |
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In Housepets!, Bino's name is pronounced "BAI-no" and not "BEE-no", though Rick has stated that he doesn't really care how you pronounce it unless it ever spawns something with spoken words. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Xyz is supposed to be pronounced as "ex-iez". Some players just call it "ex-why-zee" and even spell it as "XYZ", which is actually the name of an archetype. | |
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At one point in Cox n' Crendor, Crendor once pronounced "scarce" as /skärs/. Jesse lost it and poked fun at that for the next few minutes. | |
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In the first Lilo & Stitch movie, one of the aliens mispronounces Earth as "Ee-Arth." | |
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Lilo & Stitch | hasFeature |
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