How do you pronounce Skyrim? : V - Skyrim

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:50 am

I think it was pronounced you-durr-frükt or something like that in Bloodmoon. It was really a pain hearing, when I know how it would have been pronounced in Norwegian, where the name comes from. Obvious nordic words should be pronounced in a nordic manner IMO.

Ou-dyr-fryk-teh. :hubbahubba:

I know what you mean, I'm not Scandinavian, and still knew something was off. It just sounded... Wrong. :tongue:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:05 am

To this day, I have no idea how to say "Nerevarine" (actually, about 80% of the words in Morrowind). I've always pronounced it like "Never"and "een".
That's why I like hearing characters talk, so I know how to pronounce stuff.

neh-reh-var-een

While there is a topic on the correct pronounciation of words, whats the correct way to say thu'um? like "the-um"? or "thumb" without the b or something?

I'd guess "thoom" or maybe "thoo-um"

Now now, I did think it was "sigh-row-dill" up until Morrowind.

I thought either "sigh-row-dill" or "sih-row-dill" worked. Then again, "Cyrillic" (as in, alphabet) is pronounced "suh-rill-ic" (the "y" is a very soft "ih" sound like the "e" in "emission" as pronounced in England if the first syllable is unstressed.)

I believe that "Elsweyr" is a pun on "elsewhere" (so is pronounced that way), and Skyrim is the Rim of the Sky.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:00 am

Up until this thread I had been pronouncing Cyrodiil [syro-dill]. Never would've guessed it was pronounced as a K. =)

You were right, OP is wrong

I'd say "Sky-rim" as that was how it was said in Oblivion :shrug:
Although I still can't bring myself to pronounce "Bethesda" the way it's supposed to be; I've been thinking of it as "B'th-ees-dah" for too long to break the habit now

It is pronounced Bah-thez-duh.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:23 pm

But I wonder why these pronunciation issues crop up. One of the popular mods for Oblivion is Vilja the companion, voiced by Emma, a Swedish modder. She has played Morrowind extensively. In the mod, Vilja (voice acted by Emma) pronounces "Vivec" as Vye-vec. I have never played Morrowind, but thought that sounded odd. I figured it should be pronounced "vee-vek". Turns out that I am right. But uncanny how Emma who has played MW for so long still pronounces it her way.

After all, these are made up names, you can pronounce it however you want.

It's Vih-vec, but Vilja pronounces it Vye-vec. I mentioned it to Emma, but it's part of the character. It would probably sound wrong for Vilja to pronounce it correctly now!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:42 am

There is no EXACTLY CORRECT WAY to pronounce anything. It all depends on where you grew up and the accent you developed in your native tongue. However, there is a MOST COMMON pronounciation of words in whatever language you speak.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:48 am

Well, it took me the Todd Interview to realize you said "Kyrodiil", and not "Syrodiil". Bit too late after six years, but whatevs.

I always said "Skyrim", though. :lmao: Boy you're alone.

What? It's pronounced sear-o-dil, not kear-o-dil.

The only thing I've had trouble pronouncing in TES ever was Gnisis. I always said "Ginnis", but then I heard the Silt Strider guy say the correct way.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:27 am

its pronounced toast

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:10 am

(/y/ is like the u in French)

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» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:04 am

There is no EXACTLY CORRECT WAY to pronounce anything. It all depends on where you grew up and the accent you developed in your native tongue. However, there is a MOST COMMON pronounciation of words in whatever language you speak.

Technically, I think there is a correct way to say things - how the creators pronounce them. It is their world, after all. Just like each society has its own "correct" pronunciations, so does Nirn's societies.

And for whatever reason I always thought of thu'um as "thuh-oom."

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:19 am

Everyone, repeat after me, http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Addadshashanammu

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:23 am

Sky-rim, hell thats how it was said in Oblivion.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:05 am

addad-errr EFFck it i always hated the names of the shrines in morrowind they [censored] your brain while you tried pronouncing them

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:54 am

But I wonder why these pronunciation issues crop up. One of the popular mods for Oblivion is Vilja the companion, voiced by Emma, a Swedish modder. She has played Morrowind extensively. In the mod, Vilja (voice acted by Emma) pronounces "Vivec" as Vye-vec. I have never played Morrowind, but thought that sounded odd. I figured it should be pronounced "vee-vek". Turns out that I am right. But uncanny how Emma who has played MW for so long still pronounces it her way.

:whisper: Morrowind didn't have voice acted dialogue. The word "Vivec" was never spoken.

(I pronounce it with a short i, by the way, as in "video" - Vivvekh, kind of.)

povuholo - Well that one's pretty straight forward. Addad-shasha-nammu!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:59 am

lies the ordinators sometimes will say "praise vivec" in which his name is pronounced viih-vehk
you fearrabbit probably have the compressed version with no voices cause they do speak outside of conversation with "speak traveler" or "speak quickly outlander or go away" things like that

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:48 pm

Oh? Never heard that, I think. But in any case, the point is that even though there is a lot of talk about Vivec, the god, and Vivec, the city, 99% of it at least is only in written form, and you can play the game for hours on end without hearing somebody say it out loud.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:10 pm

What'a a Cyrodiil? Oh that's when you grill a pickle.

Hmmm, i always said sky-rim and seer-uh-dill.

Makes me wonder about some of the others.

Elsweyr?

Is it pronounced els-were, els-where, else-where or els-way-er?

I always said els-were.

I always thought it was pronounced else-where because the Khajitt had a saying of "good government is Else Where" or maybe thats a real saying.

EDIT: Just read up on the UESP, sometime after the Great Plague, the sixteen or so states unified, and called it Elseweyr because of an old Khajiit proverb, of "Perfect society is always Else where."

So that would confirm it is pronounced else-where.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:13 am

Wow this topic is certainly growing. To throw out there the name Colbert is pronounced as "Cole Bear" not as it is spelt, which led me to not take Skyrim as being pronounced as it is spelled because Sky Rim sounded stupid.

Personally Sky-Rim made sense on how its said.

You're in a very mountainous area that you can probably from the throat of the world see the "Rim" of the "Sky". Which is a fancy way of seeing the spherical hemisphere.

And I never knew that some people pronounced Iron as eye-ron. I find that wierd.

Also How do you pronounce Vivec? Is it Viv-vec or Vee-vec, or V-eye-vec

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:48 am

Morrowind didn't have voice acted dialogue.

What? Yes it did. Just not all of it was voiced.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:21 am

What? It's pronounced sear-o-dil, not kear-o-dil.

Which - AGAIN - is how I always pronounced it. But I thought I heard it pronounced with a "K" recently, which did surprise me. Just re-listened to all the GI updates, didn't find out where I got that notion, strange. Well, considering how sleep deprived I was in January, I suppose I'm only lucky I only "remember" that, and not "it's pronounced with a K, and by the way, set fire to your school".

I'm going to go and edit my first post now before someone else re-quotes me.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:03 pm

Personally Sky-Rim made sense on how its said.

You're in a very mountainous area that you can probably from the throat of the world see the "Rim" of the "Sky". Which is a fancy way of seeing the spherical hemisphere.

And I never knew that some people pronounced Iron as eye-ron. I find that wierd.

Also How do you pronounce Vivec? Is it Viv-vec or Vee-vec, or V-eye-vec

Pretty sure it's the first one you listed, though I'd write it as vih-veck.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:01 am

Pretty sure it's the first one you listed, though I'd write it as vih-veck.

I pronounce it "vi-vik".

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:25 am

Irons are pronouces eye ron because early on they were in fact a hunk of iron;/

Anyway as I told a friend once.. if your big enough ugly enough and deranged looking enough you can pronouce it any way you like and everyone will just act like they know what you just said.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:43 am

Irons are pronouces eye ron because early on they were in fact a hunk of iron;/

Anyway as I told a friend once.. if your big enough ugly enough and deranged looking enough you can pronouce it any way you like and everyone will just act like they know what you just said.

Most people around here (lower Eastern States in the US) seem to pronounce Iron as "eye-urn", and not as "eye-ron" (like in Irony * eye-ron-ee).

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:45 am

I've been pronoucing it Skir - im ever since oblivion, I still slip up and pronouce it that way once in while when I'm talking to my friends.

I could of swore that there was a NPC that keeped on pronoucing it Skir - im in oblivion and that's the only logical reason I would get that out of Skyrim. If I saw that word in anything outside of elder scrolls I would definantly pronouce it the way it is spelled.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:18 am

Most people around here (lower Eastern States in the US) seem to pronounce Iron as "eye-urn", and not as "eye-ron" (like in Irony * eye-ron-ee).

Same for Australia. I have a friend from England that also pronounces it "Eye-urn". In fact I've never heard anyone say "Eye-ron" ever, other than me when I was wondering why it wasn't pronounced that way.