I mispronounced Mxyzptlk forever. I wanna say it was The Animated Series that set me right.
Even though I know the word for some reason I want to pronounce "Maestro" Hulk as "MYestro".
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I mispronounced Mxyzptlk forever. I wanna say it was The Animated Series that set me right.
Even though I know the word for some reason I want to pronounce "Maestro" Hulk as "MYestro".
Oh man, I hate "Mixelplick"'s pronunciation from Super-Friends so much! He's fine as a character, his name is just, you know, not "Mixelplick"!
[COLOR="#B22222"]Mixy Zapple Tuck.
I still don't know how to say it.
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[QUOTE=John Venus;4279294][COLOR="#B22222"]Mixy Zapple Tuck.
I still don't know how to say it.
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Which is why I go with the tongue-easy "Mixelplick" and don't worry about the correct pronunciation. :)
I'm curious how are people pronouncing
Jaime Reyes.
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[QUOTE=caj;4278234]Not to derail this thread, but since we're talking pronunciations, I have a question.
Different people pronounce Aunt differently. Some say 'ont' and others say 'ant'. So how do you pronounce Zatanna? is it 'Za[b]ton[/b]na' or 'Za[b]tan[/b]na'[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing you're american.
From here in England, it looks like Americans don't actually have an "o" sound at all - and either use "ah" or "aw" in it's place.
So to us, "aunt" is pronounced "ahnt" (the same as aren't) - never "ont" - but I think that's probably what you're talking about.
For me personally it's:
Zat-ann-a, not Zat-ah-na
A-qua-man not Ah-qua-man
Loo-thur not Loo-thor
Ones I got wrong:
I thought "Lois" was pronounced l-oy-ss
I thought Andy Helfer was Andy Hefler.
I just didn't heve a clue about Doug Moench (now know it's pronounced Mench)
[QUOTE=dancj;4279350]I'm guessing you're american.
From here in England, it looks like Americans don't actually have an "o" sound at all - and either use "ah" or "aw" in it's place.
So to us, "aunt" is pronounced "ahnt" (the same as aren't) - never "ont" - but I think that's probably what you're talking about.
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Yeah, I probably should've used 'ahnt' in my example instead of 'ont'. I was trying to convey my pronunciation, but it's probably more accurate to use 'Zatahna'. Thanks.
As a kid I always mispronounced Saturn Girl’s name Imra as Irma or Er-ma in my head.
Also mutant as mute-nant.
For years, I mispronounced Despero. I called him 'Despair-o'. Then I saw a cartoon which properly called him 'DESSpero'
Until this century, I always pronounced Shiera or Shayera as SHEER-uh.
[QUOTE=caj;4279942]For years, I mispronounced Despero. I called him 'Despair-o'. Then I saw a cartoon which properly called him 'DESSpero'[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, that reminds me, for years I thought that Amazo was pronounced the same way at the rainforest, or Wonder Woman's people, if you just took off the "N" on the end and gave it a long O: "Am-uh-zoe". I didn't realize it was pronounced "Amaze-Oh" until I saw the animated [i]Batman: Under the Hood[/i].
To this day I don't know how anyone was supposed to know it's pronounced "Amaze-Oh" by reading the word.
[QUOTE=caj;4279942]For years, I mispronounced Despero. I called him 'Despair-o'. Then I saw a cartoon which properly called him 'DESSpero'[/QUOTE]
I pronounced him "Desperado". It was ages before I realised the name has no "ad" in it. It still feels like half a name.
When Starfire made her debut in the New Teen Titans, I was puzzled on how to pronounce "Koriand'r". Finally, I decided on "coriander", like the herb, or, just plain "Kory".
[QUOTE=John Venus;4279294][COLOR="#B22222"]Mixy Zapple Tuck.
I still don't know how to say it.
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I used to think "Mitzel-plick", but now I hear Gilbert Gottfried's explanation in my head.
[QUOTE=caj;4279942]For years, I mispronounced Despero. I called him 'Despair-o'. Then I saw a cartoon which properly called him 'DESSpero'[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't just go by the cartoon. I still think "despair-o" is correct. :)
I always thought the GLC Homeworld was OA... OH-ay, rather than O-uh.
Heh. Totally forgot I started this other day. I guess I was a little buzzed. lolz.
Anyway....
[QUOTE=Güicho;4278158]You were so close.
At Marvel I used to think Namor wss pronounced like the word [I]Submarine[/I] + err[/QUOTE]
Same. Probably called him Sub-marEEner all the way to HS.
[QUOTE=Pohzee;4278221]I still don't know if I read Ra's Al Ghul right.[/QUOTE]
It took me awhile to go from RAH's All Gull to RAZE Owl Ghoul. I think that's right? lolz.
[QUOTE=caj;4278234]
Different people pronounce Aunt differently. Some say 'ont' and others say 'ant'. So how do you pronounce Zatanna? is it 'Za[b]ton[/b]na' or 'Za[b]tan[/b]na'[/QUOTE]
ZUH Taw NA for me.
[QUOTE=The Darknight Detective;4278594]Here's one: when I first discovered Chameleon Boy back in '74, I thought it was pronounced CHAM-a-lon Boy. Later on in the year, I was watching an episode of [I]Wild Kingdom[/I] that featured a chameleon. I put 2 and 2 together immediately. :)[/QUOTE]
Yup. Did the ChamAlon Boy thing too. I could make a whole separate post about the Legionaires real names and home planets. I couldn't look in a dictionary to figure those out like a lot of other words when I was a youngin'. lolz.
[QUOTE=The Darknight Detective;4278701]It was Dark Seed for a brief time before I decided DARK-side was the logical pronunciation. :)[/QUOTE]
I still struggle with that one. Neither really sounds right to me.
Regarding Mxyzptlk....I'm a Mixelpick guy. It's just easier. ;)
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I just didn't heve a clue about Doug Moench (now know it's pronounced Mench)[/QUOTE]
Did not know that. Been Moe-Ench my whole life. Huh.