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Pokemon Names You Pronounced Wrong

ColorsofTheRainbow

Live. Love. Ho-Oh.
Oh gosh I probably pronounce alot of them wrong but a couple are
Patrat ~ Pat-rat
Kyurem ~ Kai-you-rem
Audino ~ Aw-dean-o
 

MegSuicune251

Pokemon's #1 Fan
I pronounced Suicune Soo-ee-koon
Also pronounced Rayquaza Ray-qwah-zah
Servine Sir-veen
Dewott Dee-wott
Reshiram Resh-eer-um
Zekrom Zeek-rom
Phione Fee-own
Snorunt Snore-runt
Typhlosion Thel-osion (c'mon I was 8! XD)
 
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@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! :D lol
 

Aegon

Well-Known Member
The only two I ever initially pronounced wrong were "Raikou" and "Zoroark". I did pronounce the former as rai-koo and the latter as zo-rork, but I have since seen the error of my ways.
 
Growlihte, Raikou, Suicune, Kyogre and Rayquaza ;)
 
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Aquarelle

Well-Known Member
Staff member
Suicune: I pronounced it as if it was Suisine

Kyogre: Kyogray

Arceus: Arsoose (so that it sounds like "Zeus"). I actually still pronounce it this way since the "right" pronunciation just doesn't sound good to me.
 
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Cremia

It's a small world..
I remember when I was little Suicune what the hardest for me to pronounce. My brother and I pronounced it as Swee-cane. o_O IDK dont ask lol :)

I also pronounce:
Raikou as Ray-koo.
Kyogre as Ky-oh-gree.
Gardevoir as Gar-deh-vor.
Milotic as Mill-ah-tick.
Rayquaza as Ray-qwah-zah.
Growlithe as Growl-eyeth.
Poochyena and Mightyena as Pooch-ee-ann-nah and Might-ee-an-nah.
Illumise as Ihll-loo-miss.
Mantine as Man-teen.
Arceus as Ar-soos.

IDK what else though lol :)
 

overlordmewtwo

Supreme Overlord
OK, here's a few mis-pronounciations:

Die-al-ga
Es-caval-ier (instead of Esc-ava-lier)
Groundon
K-ogre (didn't know the y was supposed to be pronounced when I first started. :p)
Ray-quA-za
Hy-dre-gon (Now I call it either by its proper name, or just "The Hydra")
Saizzor (Scizor)

Now I say all these Pokemon correctly.
 

wobbanut

Team Awesome
Before I saw the fourth movie, I kept pronouncing Suicine's name like "suicide" (soo-eh-seen).
 

pokedigijedi

Saiyan Jedi
lets see here..........Groudon for some reason I use to call GROW-don and Kyogre for some reason I use to call it Kyrogue im still wondering how I did that
 
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Arceus. I read it as Ar-see-use but my friends say Ar-ke-use.
I also read Kyogre as Kyo-gerr.

I still dunno how to read this right. :(
 

Dark Searchman

Serpentine Sniper
Suicune was definitely a problem for me, but one of my worst blunders was saying Skarmony instead of Skarmory. Yup. I'd misspell it all the time until I was corrected.
 

OshyHikari

c l a r i t y
Some names I can't get right:

Hydreigon - I eventually learned the pronounciation after watching one of Marriland's videos (his Pokemon White videos to be specific)
Arceus - I still can't get that one right...
Patrat - Confused me a little.
Audino - I get totally tongue tied with this one.
Zweilous - Same as Hydreigon
Deino - Same as Hydreigon
Cinccino - I often say it "chin-CHEE-no", need to learn how to say it someday...
 

Thorndrop

Member
I remember I used to call Onix 'oinks'. Suicune was 'suck-u-ine'. Kyogre = 'ky-rogue'.
I probably pronounce quite a few slightly wrong now, but I'm not hung up on being perfectly correct and I'm used to my own pronounciations by now.
 
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