Okay. Well…I guess we’ll just go into the pronunciations.
Well, our next little bit needs a little bit of a lead-in for our listeners who don’t have access to our huge list of questions like we do. As part of our interview questions, we have a list of words, and we asked, “How do you pronounce each of these words?” And there are about 43 of them. There are probably some on here that don’t need to be on here, and I know that there aren’t some on here that should be, but these are the 43 that we came up with.
Yeah, Spencer got mad at me because I went and annotated the list, like…I gotta be exact, and he’s like “No…”
I didn’t get mad at you! I just took ‘em off; I’m like, “Oh yeah, you’re right; take that one off.” Anyway. And so Maria, Alan…would you please go through the list and tell us how to pronounce these names and places?
Okay, here we go. And I may, you know, be wrong on some. But others, I’m pretty sure of.
And feel free to add some in if something occurs to you as you’re going.
O-kay. We have add-uh-LAY-us. (Adeleas) el-FINN. (Aelfinn) eyes-DEYE-shar. (Aesdaishar) (RJ used EYE to rhyme with the word ‘eye’) ahm-uh-DEE-see-uh. (Amadicia) [glossary: ah-mah-DEE-see-ah] (ah=ahhh sound, uh=schwa) ERR-id doe-MAHN. (Arad Doman) [glossary: AH-rad do-MAHN] arr-uh-FELL. (Arafel) [glossary: AH-rah-fehl] brr-GEE-tuh. (Birgitte) (hard G) [glossary: ber-GEET-teh] Brenn. (Bryne) [glossary: BRIHN, GAH-rehth] KEYE-ree-enn. (Cairhien) [glossary: KEYE-ree-EHN] CHA fah-EEL. ( Cha Faile ) (mid ch) drag-car. (Draghkar) [glossary: DRAGH-kahr] EEL-finn. (Eelfinn) guh-LAHD. (Galad) [glossary: gah-LAHD] GAH-win. (Gawyn) [glossary: GAH-wihn] GALE-donn. (Ghealdan) [glossary: GHEL-dahn] I’m not sure if it’s huh-REEN or huh-REEN-uh. (Harine) din toe-GAHR-uh Two Winds. ILL-ee-in. (Illian) [glossary: IHL-lee-ahn] ill-ee-AY-nuh. (? - AY is long A) CAN-door. (Kandor) (door like the word) lee-AH-nuh. (Leane) [glossary: lee-AHN-eh shah-REEF] mall-KEER. (Malkier) [glossary: mahl-KEER] my-EEN. (Mayene) [glossary: may-EHN] myur-an-DEE. (Murandy) [glossary: MEW-ran-dee] MEER-drahl. (Myrddraal) [glossary: MUHRD-draal] NEIGH-bliss. Sorry. NAY-bliss. [laughter] (Nae’blis) NEFF. (Naeff?) nee-AHM Passes (Niamh Passes) nigh-NEEV. (Nynaeve) [glossary: NIGH-neev al-MEER-ah] Plains of mah-REE-doh. (Plains of Maredo) ree-AH-nuh. (Reanne) seye-DAR. ( saidar ). [glossary: sah-ih-DAHR] seye-DEEN. ( saidin ) [glossary: sah-ih-DEEN] sall-DAY-uh. (Saldaea) [glossary: sahl-DAY-ee-ya] see-AEN. (Seaine?) Alan…
SHE-nar.
SHE-nar. (Shienar) [glossary: shy-NAHR] Swan. (Siuan) [glossary: SWAHN SAHN-chay] sor-uh-LEE-uh. (Sorilea) [glossary: soh-rih-LEE-ah] terra-BONN. (Tarabon) [glossary: TAH-rah-BON] TAR-win’s Gap. (Tarwin’s Gap) tell-uh-RON-ree-odd. ( Tel’aran’rhiod ) [glossary: tel-AYE-rahn-rhee-ODD] Tower of genn-JEYE. (Ghenjei) (hard G) truh-MALL-king. (Tremalking) [glossary: treh-MAL-king] too-AH-thuh-AHN. (Tuatha’an) [glossary: too-AH-thah-AHN]
Do you want to go over the saidar / saidin thing we talked about?
In the glossaries of the books, Jim has it sah-ih-DEEN and sah-ih-DAHR, but I swear, I don’t think he pronounced it that way; I mean you kind of give a little hint of the i but not much: sah-ee-DEEN, sah-ee-DAHR.
Yeah, he always seemed to be saying seye-DEEN and seye-DAHR.
I’m surprised at how many of those I thought I knew, but I didn’t.
Yeah. That’s like, “Waait a second, that’s not…but oh, I guess it is.”
How do you pronounce the Traveling people again?
too-AH-thah-AHN.
There’s something else with the double A there…
ah-tha-AHN mee-AIR. (Atha’an Miere)
Okay, great. Any others you can think of that are commonly mangled, that would have driven Jim crazy?
I think I’ve mentioned tah-EEM before, and egg-ee-AH-nin…
dee-MAN-dred? dee-MAHN-dred? DEE-man-dred?
Ehh…dee-MAHN-dred, I think…but I wouldn’t swear dee-MAHN-dred. [glossary: DEE-man-drehd]
Pretty straightforward.
How about all of the Forsaken? A lot of them often get mangled, or a few. GRIN-doll?
Grindle, is how I say it. [glossary: GREHN-dahl] And it’s interesting, just looking at a thing, and I pronounce CADD-in-soar ( cadin’sor ) wrong. [glossary: KAH-dihn-sohr]
Oh really?
Yeah, because it’s supposed to be cah-DIN-soar. [It’s not, according to the glossary.]
Okay, because I say it the way you say it.
Yeah, I think… [inaudible] so that makes sense.
Oh! ish-AH-may-el, and SAM-may-el. [glossary: ih-SHAH-may-EHL, SAHM-may-EHL] [When RJ said it, the ‘may’ part was more like the German ‘Mai’.]
Yes. Those are really common mistakes; I hear that a lot.
Ben [?] was right; we had that famous tagline from the original podcast, and we had this thing…I think, “Sammael was pretty buff!” [laughter] We used that a lot, and it sort of went away when he did, I guess.
Another one that I have lots of problems with—and I can’t believe I didn’t get it on the list—but is the GOLL-um ( gholam ), or the…I can’t even pronounce it right now.
GO-lem?
Yeah, the GO-lem, that’s chasing Mat.
Yeah.
Gollum.
Gollum?
Oh, it’s Gollum! [crosstalk]
I am not absolutely sure, but that’s how I say it, so…
What about some of the other Seanchan beasts that made me think of, the grolm , then there were two of the others that…
ROCK-in ( raken ), and TOE-rock-in. ( to’raken )
Yeah, and then there was another one, the um…
Torm …the book is right in front of me…
Oh, maybe it was the name of that…oh, Suroth’s pet!
S’redit ?
Oh yes, that thing. I can’t remember… [crosstalk]
Mandra…Mandragal?…Almandragal.
The LOW-par ( lopar )?
Yeah, the lopar. Almandaragal was his name, or something like that?
Something like that. I would have to look it up.
It was a LOW-par ( lopar ), wasn’t it?
Yeah, lopar . I think there was another one that I couldn’t…maybe I’m just hallucinating. [laughs]
Let’s see…
I’m sure there’s a zillion others I’ll think of after you’re off the air here with us…
Oh, s’RED-dit ( s’redit ) is another one. Remember the elephant-like creature?
Corlm , C-O-R-L-M (I like that word). Torm …that’s all I can find.
What about Tuon’s new name as Empress?
for-too-OH-nah?
Fortuona, okay. I’m not sure how else you could pronounce that, but I’ve been wrong before, so…
That, I’m assuming is right; I’m pretty sure I heard Jim pronounce it that way, because that was his choice of name.
There must be something else; there seems like a million things, and that I didn’t add enough to the list.
OH-geer…
moe-TIE? (???)
Oh! What about—speaking of historical figures—LAH-tra…poe-SAI? Or poe-SAY? deh-KYU-meh? (Latra Posae Decume)
Oh yeah, LA-tra (LA rhymes with laugh)…
I got the Latra, but I’m not sure about the second and third names.
Boy.
It’s P-O-S-A-E, and then D-E-C-U-M-E.
po-SAY-uh deh-COO-may.
deh-COO-may, okay. [crosstalk]
That’s totally off the top of my head. I see it (?) and think it, anyway. po-SAY-uh deh-COO-may, yeah.
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