I say potato...

[Ildara]

Lots of people get the pronunciation of Dweia wrong. I think the mass of vowels trip them up. *grin*

Jase says it 'DWEE-uh'. I say it 'DWAY-uh'.

Mairead's player and I say 'Samia' and 'Bryony' differently (Don't you guys feel special that you came up in conversation? Heh). I say 'sa-MIA' and 'bry-OH-nee', Mair says it 'SAM-ia and 'BRY-oh-nee' (I have a feeling Mair's right on the Bryony one though).




So how does everyone pronounce their character names?

[Mairead]

I bet most people call me MAIR-read?

It's actually MAWR-reed, though you could also say MAWR-rayt as well.

[Zeakk]

I normally type it, and don't worry about how other people pronounce it. But, if they would like to do it correctly, it sounds like "zeek" the 'a' throws people off.


-Zeakk

[Nom]

My pronunciations (not necessarily correct):

Dweia - DWAY-uh
Samia - SAY-me-uh
Bryony - BRY-on-ee
Mairead - MAY-reed (oops)
Salain - SAL-ain (not difficult)
Charmiam - SHARM-ee-am
Faer - FAY-er (run together as one syllable)

Most of the other chars I can think of and spend significant time with are IMO obvious.

[Elsie]

Ok, I think I would be *very* hard pressed finding anyone who couldn't pronounce Elsie.

I mean, guys.

Elle-see. L-C. Probably among one of the easiest names in the Castle.

Dweia = DWAY-ah.
Bryony = BRY-oh-nee.
Samia = SAM-ee-ah.


Names I do not know how to pronounce!

Charmiam = chAR-mee-am ? Ch like church, not char as in shar. Am I right? Or wrong? I must admit, Charmiam is a hard one.

Ophidias = o-FID-ee-as ?

Zenaida = zen-AID-ah ? I'm guessing that one's right...

Lydia !

[Elvii]

Hm...I always pronounced it 'Doo-ee-ah.' Although, now that I look at it, that really doesn't make much sense at all.

[Veacris]

I'm still a newly , but my name is pretty unique to me, and very personal, so I would request it be pronounced thus:

vee-AY-cris

...the vee-AY part rolling together nicely.

'Cause I intend on stickin' around! Thank you all, and good night...

[Faith]

Gah, you people *better* know how to pronounce Faith. Just say Fate, only had a -th at the end. Capish?

Dweia: Dway-ah
Elsie- LC. HAHA.
Bryony- Bryon. EEEEEEEEE.
Ophidias- Oh-fidias
Samia- Sam-ee-a
Aislinn- Ah-ee-sh-len

...Eh. I'm tired.

This one's a goody: We had a character named Siobhan a looooooong time ago, and everyone pronounced her name like it is spelled: See-oh-ban. But wait! THERE'S MORE! It's really:

Shau-vaughn.

I thought that was the most misunderstood name *ever*.

Carrie!

[uberthorns]

Dweia - DWEE-ah. Figure that out, eh?
Salain - Sal-AIN. Oops.
Mairead - MWA-reed?
Bryony - for a while it was BREE-oh-nee (Mike!'s doing ), then BRY-oh-nee
Aislinn - Whatever. Say it "bubba" and I don't care. It's Celtic, so I bet all of us are saying it wrong.

^J^

[Elsie]

Oh yeah.

Salain = Sah-LANE. Salane. Hmph.

[Gareth]

Aislinn - ASH-ling.

-Pete.

[Rikka]

Rikka is pretty easy to pronounce. Although some might say it like Rick-ah when its really Reek-kah ^_^\/

[Stacy Elizabeth]

Heh... there were endless conversations at the con about name pronunciations. I think the most memorable ones I learned were

Xios: Hee-ose
Ophidias: Oh-fidd-ee-uss

Needless to say my pronunciations were way off. *grin*

[Garrik]

Aislinn - KAH lee


One I bet everyone of you mispronounces is my own name:
Garrik - BOB





lol... no really:
GAER-rick. The GAER could almost sound like two syllables, but they aren't. It almost sounds like 'gay', but it's not.
Sounds like 'tear' as in tearing a piece of paper, followed by 'rick'

What it isnt:

• GAY-rick
• GAH-rick
• GAR-ick (car)

[Nom]

Hmm. Jess and Lydia? My wife has informed me that you are correct and I am wrong, and that when I pronounce Salain I do indeed stress the second syllable. Oops.