Pronunciation in Video Games
 

Alright, it crossed my mind, and I figured I might as well make a thread about it. ('cause I'm curious, I know it's probably a stupid topic.)

I'm just wondering how other people pronounce things, like names, summons, items, and such, in video games, since I know some pronunciations can vary from person to person.

I always pronounced "Tidus" as being "Tie-dus" (long "i" short "u") but in Kingdom Hearts, they pronounce it "Tee-dus" (long "e" sound)

Here's a few for me (ones that I've noticed other pronunciations different than how I pronounce them):
Shiva: "Shih-vah" (short "i", short "a") (I've heard this pronounced "Shee-vah" before
Ether: "Eh-ther" (short "e")
Ramuh: "Ruu-mah" (long "u" sound)
Chocobo: "Cho-cO-bo" (stress the 2nd "o" more)

(I know my "Ramuh" pronunciationg is really weird, it's just how I've come to call him. ^^;; )

So how about you guys? (You don't have to only mention the ones I've already said, by the way.)

I usually think I pronounce stuff correctly, but my Chocobo was off apparently.

"Choc-o-bo" (Emphasis was on the 'Ch', and you say it mostly together)

I got in a fairly big argument about this with a friend once about how to say it, and I never truly admitted defeat until FFX... Those speaking parts killed my argument...

And I pronounce Ramuh "Ra-muh" (Emphasis on the 'Ra')

Other then that, I pronounce all those others the same, and I can't think of any others I might pronounce odd.

I had that problem too! I was always saying Choke-o-boe. I convinced many people it was the right way.. Until they began talking. Darn it anyway!

And Mana, that's another difficult one. Thankfully Penny arcade turned me down the right path.

Shiva is certainly pronounced "Shee-vah".

I used to say Ifrit like if-ir-it, don't know why I added the extra "i". I've always prounced it choc-o-boo. It doesn't sound right to say choke-a-bow. For some reason, my brother used to say catastrophe cat-a-stroff. Your guess is as good as mine on that one. One thing I've always wondered is how do you pronounce/spell Cait Sith? I've seen it spelled at least three different ways, like Cat Saith, Cait Sith, and Cait Saith.

Actually I heard that Chocobo is actually pronounce ko-ko-bo in Japan (due to some "incapability" of pronouncing "ch"). I don't know if the source is very reliable so some japanese guru will have to back me up on that one. Ko-ko-bo should be the right way anyway. Well, I do "ether" the way CelesJessa mentioned and "shiva" I do as "sheeva". Other than that I think I'm pretty normal. I have a friend who uses "ram-oo".

I could never pronounce the different pokemon correctly. Of course my friend and I began to pronounce "pokemon" wrong intentionally after it became popular. We decided on the "old man talk" of "poke-e-mans".

Uh, that's wrong, because they have the ch sound. They can do it quite well, actually.

I played FFX. It IS choe-koe-boe, is it not?

Ramuh: Ruumah? Wtf? You must know this is wrong. You're completely misreading the word. I've always said Ray-moo until I found out it was Ram-uh.

I hate people who play CT/CC and think Schala is Skala. NO! no! NO!

I pronounce everything correctly. If you think I pronounce something incorrectly, it is actually not me that is wrong, but the game designers/dictionary/whatever other source you have.

Seriously though... looking at all of those... I pronounce them all the right way.
Shee-vah
Ee-ther (it's a long e... it's also a chemical compound)
Ram-uh
and Cho-co-bo.

All mentioned names I say correctly.

Some new ones...

Carbunkle (Is that even spelled right?) - Car-bunk-ul
Bahamut - Bah-ha-muth (Don't know where I got the h)
Sephiroth - Sef-ear-oth (I know that is wrong, but it sounds better then the right way)

I go Se-pear-oth, but then it gets shortened to Sephy, so then its Sefy...so confuzling.