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I prefer to think of the multitudes of pronunciations as regionalisms, both among real and TES cultures.

My personal favorite incarnation of Vivec I've heard (don't use though) is VI-vec, first syllable rhyming with buy. This comes from a person with a big American Southern dialect, so for him, stressing the first syllable is natural for him.

For what it's worth, I think that word has been established to be truly unpronounceable... the written word is some pale approximation of some arcane Ehlnofex incantation (figuratively speaking). As for Dee-dra vs. Day-dra, I say Day-dra, but some of the VO in Oblivion pronounces it Dee-dra... probably a regionalism. Interestingly, the only real-word correct pronunciation of that syllable would be a long I, as in buy, but hey :shrug:

I say VI-vek, short i, emphasis on the first syllable. I've said it that way since I bought Redguard (whose included Pocket Guide to the Empire kicked off my fascination with the Tribunal), and I don't care if the ALMSIVI themselves say it differently.

Also, I've always pronounced Khajiit as ka-ZHEET, but (and this MAY have been a dream, because I'm weird) I thought I heard an in-game voice say KA-jit. It made me shiver. It made me feel the way I feel when people pronounce crepe as kraqe. It was that bad, and it's not even real :ahhh:

And, dreugh... ummm... a wizard did it.

I've always been interested in knowing how other forumers pronounce Chimer. For some odd reason I've always pronounced it "KYE-muhr" when it seems like it should be pronounced "CHI-muhr." How do you pronounce it?

EDIT: Or maybe "CHYE-muhr," hmm...

KI-mer. CH=K, long I, as in eye.

Yup. I remember finding a thread about how CHIM is pronounced. It's pronounced KIM (like with Kimberly). So, chimer probably uses the 'k' sound, too.

I have always taken Divayth Fyr to be Div-ay-ith Fi-r

Nord - Nord
Nede - Ned
Breton - Bret-on
Cyrodiil - Seer-roh-dill
RedGuard - yup
Bosmer - Boz Mur
Khajiit - Cah-Jeet
Argonian - Are-Go-nee-an
Psiijic - See-jick
Daedra - Day-Drah
Aedra - Ay-drah

So I was right, how nicely vindictive.

I believe the male morrowind Khajiit says KA-jit and the female says Ka-ZHEET.

Shae-goh-rath
or
She-oh-gor-ath
or
Shae-oh-gor-ath

Alyeid - A-lee-id

Khajiit - kuh-jzeet

Cryodiil - seer-oh-dill or seer-uh-dill

Breton - Bret-in (silent t...Although that just might be me as in all the words I say where the t isn't the first letter, I sort of "drop the t")

Daedra - Day-druh

Hlallu (sp?) - Law-loo (although I sometimes pronounce it "huh-law-loo")

Psiijic - see-jeek

Vivec - viv-ik or viv-ek

What is cool about the pronunciations in the TES is they seem to be regional. I could be wrong in this, but didn't Colovians and Nibenians pronounce Kvatch different ways? I remember some NPC's pronouncing Kvatch as K-vach and some NPCs pronounced K-Vahtch. Like Mehrunes Dagon, I like to think of the different pronunciations as a result of regional differences, this has a high probability of being true. I think it was more than Kvatch that NPCs of different regions in Oblivion pronounced differently.

I have heard Kvatch pronounced as Kuh-vatch, only, and maybe one instance of Kay-vatch. But never have I heard it as K-vach (Kay-vauk?) or K-Vahtch (Kay-vawtch?) Or maybe I am just mispronouncing your pronunciations.

They pronounce it "dreg" in Oblivion.


I think oits just the Breton vocie actor that calls it K-vach.

Hmm...

Ay-lee-id (vowels like jay-pee-did)

Kah-jeet (vowels like caw-peat)

H'lah-loo

Si-jik (vowels like kid-pick)

Vih-vek (Vehk and Vehk, ergo the "-vec" would be pronounced as "vek") (vowels like pig-heck)

Nah, I'm pretty I heard Imperials say K-vach during the game.

Dreugh - Drew (I know that's wrong, but that's how I like to pronounce it )

I don't recall where, but I could have sworn that I've heard someone in Oblivion pronounce it as "Drugch"

I don't have the vocals to say that without sounding like a butthead. If any human does, I'd be surprised.

I pronounce it as Drewg.



Now, everyone at the same time... Addadshashanammu!

Add-uh-shaw-shanna-moo :hehe:

Ad-dad-shash-a-nam-moo (vowels like: had-bad-hash-alp-pom-boo)
Ad-dad-shash-an-am-moo
Ad-dad-shas-ha-nam-moo
Ad-dad-shas-han-am-moo

Syllables could be broken up in a few places (I've not typed out all the possible permutations).

And I'm with Nextmastermind, I've pronounced Dreugh as Drew until I heard it in TESIV. I still pronounce it drew, I don't think I could ever call it "dreg." Next you'll tell me Rohugh it pronounced Roheg. :rolleyes:

I pronounce Rohugh as roe-yew.

Well, I think it was an Elf that said it, so yeah
It might have been more like "Dru-ch". It's been too long though

I believe the only pronunciation of it in Oblivion is v'vek.