@ColorsofTheRainbow: How do you pronounce them then? I pronounce them the same as what you have put.
I guess there's a few for me. Some of the actual pronunciations make no phonetic sense to me and I stubbornly still pronounce them they way I want!
Suicune is a prime example. I think of the "cune" part with a "ss" sound rather than a "kih" sound found in words such as "cycling" and "cerise" and all other names with the "sui" sound (swee) are pronounced as such by myself but not Suicune. A decade of saying SOO-EE-SOON has stuck firmly in my mind and will not shift. It just rolls of the tongue better than "SWEE-COON" Ugh. When I first saw that I was like "What? You best be joking!!?!"
Nothing wrong with Ray-qwah-zah, that's how I say it. Ray-qwey-zah? Sounds ridiculous.
Kai-oh-gurr seems right to me.
Anyway back to things which I'm certain I've gotten wrong at first and now say properly.
Lugia used to be LOO-GEE-UHH. Gee as in German or "Gee man what a jip" Yeah a G which sounds like a J.
Wobbuffet was was Woh-boo-fey
Scyther - SKY-Ther
Raichu - Rah-ee-choo with a very prolonged ee sound
Zoroark - Zoh-roh-ark apparently it's not this... actually I still say it like that.
Anyone had times when they've heard someone say a pokemon name and completely miss pronounce it and think "GODAMMIT YOU LITTLE SH*T" Or something along those lines?
The closest I had to that was when I was at an event and heard a kid older than most of the rest of them say Pidgeot as "PIJ-IT" I mean really? He was sounding off the J with such force it was just so wrong.
Then there's my friend Kyle... we don't talk about Kyle and his mis-pronunciations any more, he's had too many.
Like I can talk with half of the new ones not being as I thought!
lol