Name Pronunciation

Shuram Gudatetris · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject: Name Pronunciation

Mods, you can go ahead and start throwing rocks and rotten tomatoes at me, because this has probably been discussed dozens of times in hundreds of different threads. But I been looking and looking and haven't figured out where to look, at least not as far as Mordant's Need is concerned. I know there is a Name Meaning thread, but pronunciation is barely mentioned there, as far as I can tell, and I didn't want to pull it off topic.

Self-Explanatory thread, really. How do you pronounce them?

I know the basic rules and structure of the English language, but I can't possibly make my brain read/pronounce in my head Geraden and Artagel with soft G's.

Ah hell, I'll list them:

Geraden: GAIR-uh-den

Artagel: ART-uh-gel (hard g)

Joyse: joice (like rejoice)

Myste: MIST

Kragen: Craig N. ; KRAY-gen (hard g)

Basically, like I said, I can't get the hard G's out of my head, and I mention Joyse and Myste because I stumble on those a lot, testing out how JOY-zee and MISS-tee feel/sound. Wonder how it all works out for others. Those are the only ones I can think of right now.
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StevieG · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:06 am Post subject:

They're all exactly how I pronounce them.
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Avatar · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:15 am Post subject:

Jer-ah-den.

Otherwise, they're the same.

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IrrationalSanity · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:20 am Post subject:

My inclination has been soft g for Geraden and Artagel, as well as Margonal. Hard g for Kragen (all accented on first syllable), and a long a for Kragen.

Silent e for Myste and Joyse.

Barsonage = Parsonage with a b.

Quillon = I vary between Quill-un and key-Ohn (sort of French).
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amanibhavam · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:34 pm Post subject:

I pronounce Geraden with a hard g, mainly because in German gerade means 'just, straight, direct' etc. so I think the name refers to that.
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wayfriend · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject:

jur-ADD-in

ar-TAY-gle

JOYZ-ee

MIST-ee

KRAY-gen

Barsonage - BAR-sun-IJ

Quillon - QUILL-un
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Shuram Gudatetris · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:20 pm Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:48 am Post subject:

I read Margonal and Kragen both with a hard "g."

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Quiss · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:48 pm Post subject:

Geraden - Sounds like the beginning of Jerry....(if that makes sense ^^)

Joyse - Joice

Myste - Mist (Only because that's how I pronounce my name)

Kragen - Like a cray fish ^^ lol Cray-gen (Sounding like gun but with an 'en' sound like end)

Margonal - Like Margin, but with an O. Margin-OL

Artagel - Art-a-gel (Gel like the beginning of Gelding)

Barsonage - Like the aforementioned Parsonage with a 'b' ^^

Lebbick - Leb-Ick

Quillon - Quill-on (exactly how its spelt ^^)

Obviously I suck at describing how things sound...buuut, if you can all understand that then its all good ^^

wayfriend · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject:

Cambo · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:36 pm Post subject:

Ger-AH-den (soft g)
Joice (as in re-joice)
Mist
ART-a-gel (hard g)
MARG-o-nel (hard g)
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Cord Hurn · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:51 am Post subject:

I think it's important to sound out King Joyse's name in one's head as "JOYZZZ"; that way you remember to spell it with an "s" instead of a "c".

wayfriend · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:01 pm Post subject:

shadowbinding shoe · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:40 pm Post subject:

It's pronounced like the end of rejoice! If you say it with ZZZZ it sounds like joys and that's belittling our beloved king Joyce.

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shadowbinding shoe · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 12:43 pm Post subject:

No worries Cord Hurn.

I'm not a native English speaker and wasn't familiar with the femalish name 'Joyce' so it didn't bother me the way it did you.

Here's a name-meaning link: http://www.behindthename.com/name/joyce. Seems it's not strictly a female name and contain both the meaning rejoice and lord. The earlier male version was spelled Josse. I'm not sure how Medieval pronounciation makes it sound. Probably Germanic sounding.

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