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Brian Hague
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My thing with Magneto and the Sub-Mariner is that both magneto and mariner are actual words. They pre-date the characters. How anyone can continue to confuse them, aggressively & belligerently so at times, baffles me. Unfortunately, the term "submariner" is also an actual word, which confuses the issue. For me, the correct pronunciation came first, so that's the one I've always most closely and easily allied myself with. Same with Darkseid.
Where I trip myself up is the Composite Superman. Somehow, even though the word "composite" was used in my house with composite board and my father's work on the police department using a composite kit to build suspect's likenesses, somehow I read that name as "Kom-Po-Zight." It wasn't until decades of saying it wrong that a friend laughed out loud at me and corrected me. Very embarassing.
I apparently had Uatu (Me: "Oo-Ay-Too"; Correct, supposedly: "Wha-Too") and Mjolnir wrong as well. (Me: "M'Joel-Ner"; Correct, supposedly: "Mole-Neer") Oh, well...
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Michael Roberts
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I read it as Ooo-AH-too.
Mjolnir comes from Norse mythology, and I thought it was more MYOL-
neer.
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Paul Kimball
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| Posted: 17 November 2014 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | 3
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I always had trouble with "psionic"
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Matt Hawes
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Brian Hague wrote:
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I give people a pass depending on age and what kind of exposure they had to some words. Magneto, for instance, isn't a word (before the X-Men comic existed) that the average twelve-year-old might have heard, but they would have likely heard the word "Magnet." So, naturally, they would read "Magneto" as "Magnet-Oh".
With made-up names like Uatu, I can understand why readers would have trouble knowing how to pronounce such names. After all, only the creators would really know for sure.
I had a friend who was big on trying to correct other people all the time, and was practically a know-it-all. Funny enough, he would pronounce Ka-Zar as "KAH-Zar". This was funny because this friend owned "(Uncanny) X-Men" #10, which first introduced the modern version of the character, Ka-Zar, and the splash page to that issue actually includes a pronunciation key for saying the name! There is actually an arrow pointing right at his name that says it's "PRONOUNCED KAY-SAR".
And, of course, there are those words many of us were first exposed to in comic book stories (yep, comics cvan be educational), but some of us might not have been sure on how they were pronounced: coup de grâce, or debris, as examples.
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Paul Kimball
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I lost the ability to correctly pronounce words after I saw Angels/Mariners
player Chone Figgens. Should rhyme with phone but no, it's Sean. Now I'm
never sure.
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Raj Dhami
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I heard a guy in a comics shop pronounce "Rogue" as "Raj." Fame at last!!
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Neil Lindholm
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I had a student years ago with the last name spelled "Kuntz". I had no idea how to pronounce that one so I just went for it. She got all frosty and exclaimed in a haughty tone that it was pronounced "Koontz". Serves her right for having a silly last name.
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Brian O'Neill
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One of the all-time great baseball names is Rusty Kuntz, who was a bench warmer for he Tigers in 1984, and currently is a coach for the Royals(he got more mentions and on-camera time than their manager during the World Series!) 'Koontz' is indeed the right pronunciation(at least Dean spells it that way!), although Rusty does not pronounce his first name 'Roosty'.
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John Byrne
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I went to high school with a girl named Fuchs, who insisted on a hard K rather than a long O.On Sub-Mariner -- that is one of the perversities of English. When we speak of matters aquatic, we say "mareen," but the moment we stick an "r" on the end, it become "mar-in-er." No wonder some people have trouble with it!
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John Byrne
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…had trouble with "psionic"•• You mean piss-on-ic?
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Aaron Smith
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I heard a guy in a comics shop pronounce "Rogue" as "Raj."
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I had never seen the word rogue before I read my first X-Men issue. A friend and I decided it was pronounced "Rogg-oo."
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Brian Rhodes
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I lost the ability to correctly pronounce words after I saw Angels/Mariners
player Chone Figgens. Should rhyme with phone but no, it's Sean. Now I'm
never sure.
Don't you mean Angles/Mareeners player...?
Edited by Brian Rhodes on 18 November 2014 at 9:08am
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