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throughout Square's games, there have been many towns, people, items, etc. that could be pronounced differently depending on what you want it to sound like. Anyway, what are some of your ways of pronouncing some words throughout the games of Square?

FF4--

Cecil [See-sull]
Kane [kane]
Palom [Pal-um]
Porom [Pour-um]
Golbez [Gull-bez]

FF6--

Gau [Gay-you]
Sabin [Say-bin]
Cyan [Si-ann]
Umaro [You-mare-o]
Gestahl [Geh-stull]
Narshe [Narsh]
Kohlingen [Call-en-gin]

FF7--
Sephiroth [Seff-er-oth]
Aeris [Air-iss]

FF9--
Zidane [Zy-dane]
Vivi [Vee-vee]
Freya [Fray-a]
Quina [Queen-a]
Amarant [Am-uh-raunt]
Brahne [Brawn]
Lindblum [Lin-bloom]
Treno [Tree-no]
Necron [Nee-cron]

etc.--

chocobo [chock-uh-bo]
Bahamut [Bah-hom-ut]
Culex [Cue-lecks]
Ifrit [If-freet]
Maduin [Muh-dune]

i'm doing this from memory. when i remember some more, i'll edit them in.

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

Final Fantasy IV
Kain - "Kayn"
Cecil - "See-sill"
Rydia - "Rih-dee-ah"
Rosa - "Roz-ah"
Palom - "Pay-lom"
Porom - "Pore-om"

Final Fantasy VI
Celes - "Say-lais"
Terra - "Terr-ah"
Strago - "Strah-go"
Sabin - "Sah-bin"
Gau - "Ga-ooh"
Umaro - "Ooh-mahr-o"
Gestahl - "Guess-tall"
Kohlingen - "Koh-ling-gen"
Figaro - "Fee-gah-row"
Mobliz - "Mohb-liz"

Final Fantasy VII
Sephiroth - "Seff-ih-roth"
Aeris - "Air-iss"
Tifa - "Tee-fah"
Yuffie - "Yuff-ee"
Cait Sith - "Cayt Sihth"
Midgard - "Mihd-gard"
Shinra - "Shihn-rah"

Final Fantasy VIII
Squall - "Skwall"
Seifer - "Sai-ferr"
Laguna - "Lah-goon-ah"
Quistis - "Kwis-tiss"
Selphie - "Sell-fee"
Balamb - "Bay-lamm"

Final Fantasy Tactics
Ramza - "Rahm-zah"
Delita - "Del-ee-ta"
Agrias - "Ah-gree-as"
Alma - "All-mah"
Mustadio - "Muss-tah-dee-oh"
Dycedarg - "Die-sih-darg"
Zalbag - "Zahl-bag"
Beoulve - "Bee-ool-v"
Igros - "Ih-gross"

Final Fantasy IX
Zidane - "Zih-dayn"
Garnet - "Garr-net"
Vivi - "Vee-vee"
Steiner - "Sty-ner"
Amarant - "Am-arr-ant"
Eiko - "I-ko"
Freya - "Fray-ah"

Final Fantasy X
Tidus - "Tee-dus"

The rest of the names in Final Fantasy X don't really leave room for interpretation, since they're often voiced out loud.  

Oh, and before I forget...

Cid - "Sid"

I wonder who would pronounce "Cid" differently...like "kid", perhaps?  Hmm.

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"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
~Dorothy L. Sayers

"The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
~T.S. Eliot

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!"
~ Bruce Lee

As a suggestion, I think we should make a list, and then fill in  our pronounciation of each. It would make it flow easier, and it would be more comparable. And if you don't really care to leave an answer, you could just leave that choice blank.

Anyways:

FF6

Celes - "sell-iss" (like monica celes)
Gau - "gow" (like oww)
Gestahl - "gesh-stall"
Kohlingen - "co-leen-gen"
Sabin - "say-bin"
Strago - "stray-go"
Umaro - "you-mar-o"

FF7

Aeris - "air-ees"
Cait Sith - "kate-sith" (i think it's supposed to be "kite-shee" but I refuse to say it that way)
Sephiroth - "sef-a-roth"

FF8

Balamb - "ba-lahm"
Laguna - "la-goon-a"
Seifer - "see-fer"
Squall - "skwall"

FF9

Amarant - "am-a-rant"
Brahne - "bron"
Eiko - "I-ee-ko"
Freya - "free-ya"
Garnet - "garr-net"
Lindblum - "lind-blum"
Necron - "neck-ron"
Quina - "queen-a"
Vivi - "vee-vee"
Zidane - "zi-dan"

FF10

Tidus - "tie-dus" or "tie-tus" (like the FOX show basically, and again, it's supposed to be "tee-dah" i think...never.)

Miscellaneous

Bahumat - "bah-hom-it"
Chocobo - "choke-a-bo" or "cho-kah-bo" (please tell me that I'm not the only one that says it this way, it just seems so natural)
Ifrit - "if-rit"

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

Quote (Sabin @ 13 Aug. 2002, 16:44)

Maduin [Muh-dune]

ahem?

I think Hikaroo said it best: Male Doing



[Edit:  first person to "remind me" that it's Maduin and not Mael Duin will recieve a wedgy]

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"Number One, I order you to go take a number two."

I really don't care how the Japanese pronounce things, I am an American, so that is how I will read them.

FF6

Celes - "sell-eis"
Gau - "gow"
Gestahl - "ges-tall"
Kohlingen - "call-ih-gen" (I know that's wrong, tremendously, but I slightly glance most things)
Sabin - "say-bin"
Strago - "stra-go"
Umaro - "uh-mar-oh"

FF7

Aeris - "air-ees"
Cait Sith - "kate-sith"
Sephiroth - "sef-ir-oth"

FF8

Balamb - "ba-lahm"
Laguna - "la-goon-a"
Seifer - "sai-fer"
Squall - "skwall"

FF9

Amarant - "am-a-rant"
Brahne - "brahn"
Eiko - "ee-ko"
Freya - "fray-ah
Garnet - "gar-net"
Lindblum - "lind-blum"
Necron"neck-ron"
Quina - "quin-ah"
Vivi - "vee-vee"
Zidane - "zai-dane"

FF10

Tidus - "tie-dus"

FFT

Ramza - "ram-zah"
Delita - "de-leet-ah"
Igros - "ih-gras"
Gallione - "gal-ih-on"
Dycedarg - "dice-darg"
Orlandu - "or-lan-dooh"


Miscellaneous

Bahumat - "bah-hom-it"
Chocobo - "cho-ko-boh" (If you look at the work and sound it out individually, you will get that, so there :-P)
Ifrit - "if-rit"
Shiva- "shy-vah"

Quote (FraudulentTommah @ 14 Aug. 2002, 12:50)

Chocobo - "cha-ko-boh" (If you look at the work and sound it out individually, you will get that, so there :-P)

Except I've always said "cho" like "show". Example: Margaret Cho.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

I love these threads

Gau: alright people. Gau means "bow" as in bark and is pronounced almost exacly the same way (a guy in Mobliz even says that he goes around barking.:P)  

Seifer:  Zepher(more likely it's Cipher as in The Matrix, but I say Zepher.)  Means either code or heaven, in Hebrew, i believe.

(btw, interesting note to anyone who's parent's have ever yelled at them for saying God in vain:


from encyclopedia mythica

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The name YHVH or YHWH is written with four consonants only; it is the holy Tetragrammaton, or in Hebrew, Shem Hameforash. Hebrew has no vowels. In ancient times, it didn't even have vowel points. These were added much later, and at that time pronouncing the name was already forbidden for generations. So no one knows how the most ancient name of God was pronounced. The vowel points make it sound like Yehova, and later it was anglicized to Jehovah. The reader may not say it. He or she must say instead the name Adonai, which means "My Lord." The name occurs about seven thousand times in the Bible."

I think it's funny that we're not supposed to say "God" when it's only a euphemism )

anyway,(now that I've pissed off Rubes again) GAME ON!!!!!

Sephiroth:  SephIRoth (I stress the ir part, most people I know say seph-i-ROTH, again not sayin which is better[I reserve that right with Gau though]just stateing what I say) path to heaven, or code of heaven (I'm not sure whether Zepher is code or sky)  Also: Cloud = Squall, Sephiroth = Seifer. (and some people wonder why FF8 sucks )

Chocobo: Chou-ko-bou (that's how I say it but I'm probably wrong)  

the american "o"  is to a japanese person "ou"  the u part is where you make your lips into an o shape. (in other words Japanese people don't allways do that)   since the "u" is there anyway in English, we normally don't write it.   to do an o with out the "u" simply don't round your mouth.  which is what I think tommah was refering to.

Vivi:  I freaking LOVE this name.  It's a misreading of the roman number 66  (yes, it's pronounced VeeVee, other wise it wouldn't be cool.)

Gestahl, Kohlingen, and anything else with and ahl in it: make sure you say that "H" (should sound like you're checking your breath.)

Eiko: is pronounced eh-ko  (ex. lei, fei.)

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"Number One, I order you to go take a number two."

Beg to differ regarding the H.  It's a very German construction, and the H doesn't sound especially in German.  It's also ambiguous to say Gau = bow: which bow?  A hunter's bow, or a polite bow?  I say it as the latter.  Again, German.

One I seem to say differently from a lot of people is Mobliz, as Mo-blits.  German pronunciation again.  And I pronounce the E on Narshe as if it were a German "Narsche" (which would be better IMO).

You can clear up the pronunciation of chocobo once and for all by playing FF10, I understand (provided you trust the American voice actors).  Personally I still say it like chocolate, but swapping the last syllable for bow as in a hunter's bow.

And Sabin like cabin, not "Say, 'Bin", for me.  And Cait Sith is indeed supposed to be something along the lines of "ketchee".  Ugh.

Did anyone notice that some of the FF9 graphics have Lindblum spelt "Lindbulm"?  I'm never sure which way to pronounce it.  As for Balamb, well.  Baa-lamb?  Like a sheep?  That's how I'd say it.

And what better time to sneak in a rant.  If I ever catch you saying or writing Ragnorak instead of Ragnarok, I'm going to eat you so much.

Quote (Tiddles the Cat @ 14 Aug. 2002, 18:33)

It's also ambiguous to say Gau = bow: which bow?  A hunter's bow, or a polite bow?  I say it as the latter.  Again, German.

the latter.  Again, bow as in a dog's bark (bow wow)  you don't say that in England?

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"Number One, I order you to go take a number two."

FF4:
Cecil:  SEE-Sull
Palom:  PAL-ahm
Porom:  POUR-ahm
Rydia:  RIHD-ee-uh

FF5:
Salsa:  SAL-suh (I'm sorry, that was just too funny a name to pass up)

FF6:
Locke:  LOCK
Terra:  TAIR-uh
Edgar:  ED-grrrr
Sabin:  rhymes with cabin
Cyan:  SIGH-ann
Celes:  Suh-LESS (yes, I put the emphasis on the second syllable, just as though you were saying Celestial and taking off the "tial")
Gau:  Rhymes with Cow
Setzer:  SET-sir
Strago:  STRAY-go
Umaro:  oo-MAHR-oh

FF7:
Sephiroth:  SEFF-ur-roth
Tifa:  TEE-fuh
Aeris:  Heiress
Yuffie:  YUH-fee
Cait Sith:  Kate Sith
Elena:  uh-LAY-nuh

FF8:
Rinoa:  Rih-NO-uh
Quistis:  QUISS-tiss
Seifer:  like decipher, without the de
Raijin:  RAY-jihn
Fujin:  FOO-jihn

FF9:
Zidane:  Zih-DANE
Eiko:  AYE-koh
Quina:  QUIH-nuh

FF10:
Tidus:  TIDE-us (I know it's wrong, but the guy has problems enough without being Tee-dus)
Everyone else in the game is pronounced.  Like CHOCOBO!  Bruhaha!  Choke-uh-boh (long O on the first and third o's)

Summons/monsters:
Bahamut:  Buh-HA-mutt
Behemoth:  Beh-HEE-muth
Ramuh:  RAH-muh
Shiva:  SHEE-vuh
Ifrit:  IF-rit
Quetzacotl:  QUETTS-uh-COAT-ull (I put two emphasises)
Leviathan:  Luh-VI-uh-thun

That's all I can think of.

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

Quote (Neal @ 15 Aug. 2002, 13:05)

Like CHOCOBO!  Bruhaha!  Choke-uh-boh (long O on the first and third o's)

Yay.


Quetzacotl - We learned about the Aztec God in spanish class, but i don't care how it looks or should be pronounced. I just say "queez-a-cot".

Leviathan - "lev-ia-thin"
Behemoth - "bah-hee-muth"

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

Quetzalcoatl=  ketz-all-ko-atl  (the t and l are slammed together to make one consonate.)

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"Number One, I order you to go take a number two."

Too lazy to write everything. So Summons:

Ramuh - Ram-you
Shiva - Shee-vuh
Ifrit - Ih-friht
Chocobo - Choh-coh-boh
Carbunkle - Cahr-buhn-kuhl
Bahamut - Bah-hah-mit
Ragnarok - Rag-nuh-rohck
Quetzacoatl - Ku-eht-zah-coat-uhl
Leviathan - Leh-vai-uh-thin

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Lou: There's a couple of guys fighting down at the aquarium, Chief.
Wiggum: Do they still sell those frozen bananas?
Lou: I think so.
Wiggum: Let's roll.

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Except I've always said "cho" like "show". Example: Margaret Cho.

Eh, that's what I ment. Stupid typo.

Quote (mael_duin @ 15 Aug. 2002, 20:46)

Quetzalcoatl=  ketz-all-ko-atl  (the t and l are slammed together to make one consonate.)

my bad, it should be Kate-zal-ko-atl. Spanish people made up the spelling.     Que=kay

(the tl is done by jamming your tounge into the roof of your mouth to stop air flow.)

but i usually say Qetz.. (show's what I know eh? )

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"Number One, I order you to go take a number two."