See It and Say It

[Jack Dracula]

Then there's the John Constantine example. Teen or tyne. I've had that discussion on this board before. Still not sure of the correct way to say that. If it's the same as the historical Constantine The Great then I'd have it as Constan-TEEN.

The last syllable is pronounced as TYNE not TEEN.
I've recently read the issue of Swamp Thing where he corrects Alec Holland on it's pronunciation.

[Hybrid]

What about Fantomex?

I've seen it pronounced as "Fan-toe-MEX" and "fan-tom-ex". I know it was based on Fantomas, given his whole theme of being "French".

[Jim Kelly]

Oh here is one that is constantly mispronounced "T'challa".

If you watch the film Black Panther you can tell people that are native English speakers because they pronounce the "Tuh". Listen to the way Lupita says it and you'll see the difference.

It really should be more like just "CHUH-la".

The "T" is supposed to be an indicator of a hard "CH" sound.

In THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE, which I've only seen in Brazil, in Brazilan Portuguese the name is spelled as "Batman" but it's pronounced like Batchman.

Cthulhu is one that I always get wrong. H.P. Lovecraft intended it to sound one way, but I sound it out like it's spelled. When I was a kid, I got a lot of words wrong that way. There was a character in a comic book who had the name Socrates and I pronounced that Sock-Rates--it was a good ten years before I learned that was wrong.

[Kirby101]

They say Nay-more in the cartoons too. It sounds stupid.


sub-MA-rinner

Yes, my phonetic was wrong.

Still Nay-more

[Jim Kelly]

The last syllable is pronounced as TYNE not TEEN.
I've recently read the issue of Swamp Thing where he corrects Alec Holland on it's pronunciation.

They made a joke about this on part 3 of Crisis.

[MyriVerse]

Kara : KA ra
Conan : koh NAN
Rogue : ROHG
Rouge : ROOZH
Lana Lang : LAH nuh LAYNG
Lois Lane : LOH iss LAYN
Mxyzptlk : MIX iz pittle ik
Ozymandias : OZY mandy ass
Luthor : LOO ther
Insurance : IN shore ance
Electric el EK trik

The T' in T'Challa gets its own syllable, is not silent, and is not combined with the CH (there is no diphthong or triphthong). This is the point of the apostrophe.

[KOSLOX]

Kara : KA ra
Conan : koh NAN
Rogue : ROHG
Rouge : ROOZH
Lana Lang : LAH nuh LAYNG
Lois Lane : LOH iss LAYN
Mxyzptlk : MIX iz pittle ik
Ozymandias : OZY mandy ass
Luthor : LOO ther
Insurance : IN shore ance
Electric el EK trik

The T' in T'Challa gets its own syllable, is not silent, and is not combined with the CH (there is no diphthong or triphthong). This is the point of the apostrophe.

The T is Lee and Kirby trying to create an "authentic" African sounding name and not understanding TCHAD was a French construct so that it wasn't pronounced SHad.