How do you say...?

[abrojtm]

Of course, there are tons of disputed phonetic pronounciations of names throughout the series, so I'm just wondering how you say some of them. Feel free to add your own.

Sephiroth:
Seff-ih-roth

Aeris:
Air-iss

Cait Sith:
Kate Sith

Yuffie:
Yuff-ee

Rinoa:
Rinn-oh-ah

Seifer:
See-fur

Eiko:
Ee-ee-koe

Zidane:
Zidd-ane

Brahne:
Brawne

Eidolon:
Ee-doe-lonn

Tidus:
Tie-dus

Chocobo:
Choke-a-bow

Bahamut:
Baa-hah-mutt

... I'm sure there are more, now post!

[strawberryman]

Chocobo
coke-obo

I always thought it was, until squaresoft proved me wrong. I hate them now. (not really, but i dislike them for correcting me.)

[Alder]

FuSoYa
"Fu-so-ya"

[Yuffie514]

well, i sure hope that people don't pronounce my name as Yuff-ee :eek: :p . i always pronounce it as "Yoof-ee" ;) . here's some that others might pronounce differently :) : me = red

Tidus
Tie-dus/Tee-dus

Eiko
A-ko/Eeko

Seifer
Sai-fur/See-fur

[Dking'squeen]

Siefer= Sai-fer
Quistis= Quist-us
Tidue=Tee-dus
Valefor= Vail-a-four

[Del Murder]

Sephiroth:
Seff-ih-roth

Aeris:
Air-iss

Cait Sith:
Kate Sith

Yuffie:
Yuff-ee (but after KH came out I sometimes think yoo-fee)

Rinoa:
Rinn-oh-uh

Seifer:
Sigh-fur

Eiko:
Ee-ko

Zidane:
Zidd-ane

Brahne:
Brawn

Eidolon:
Ay-doe-lonn

Tidus:
Tide-us

Chocobo:
Cho-co-bo

Bahamut:
Baa-hah-moot

[rubah]

I could go on for a long time.

Tidus: "ti'- duhs"
Valefor: "vail'-fur"
Ifrit: "if'-rit"
Shiva: "she'-va" (our history books pretends that the hindu god is siva. I said that was BS and wrote it shiva on everything anyways. there was another word they should've used their reasoning on in the same manner but didn't. another lesson in why history class is stupid^_^)
Ixion: "ix'-ee-on"
Bahamut: two-- "ba'-[h]u-mut" or "buh-ha'-mut"
Chocobo: "cho'-ko-bo"
Kuja: "koo'-jah"
Zidane: "zih- dane'"
Eiko: "eh-ii'-ko"
Steiner: "stii'-ner" (see Seifer)
Brahne: "brawn'y"
Eidolon: "aid'-a-lawn"
Rinoa: "rih-no'-ah" (I found a sound clip of someone saying this somewherex.X)
Seifer: "sy'-fer" (like cypher. see Steiner)
Renzokuken: "rens''-o-koo'-ken" (although I've spent a lot of time thinking about this one. "reh-n-zo-ku-ka-n" comes to mind. but that's hard so I stick with the first one^^)
Quistis: "kees'-tis"
Irvine: "ir'-vin"
Edea: "ih-dee'-ah"
Ellone: "el-own'"
Aeris: "air'-is"
Sephiroth: "sef'-ir-oth" (after one-winged angel, all ideas of "seh-fir'-uth" were banished, happily)
Tifa: "tih'-fa"
Yuffie: "yuff'-ee"
Celes: "stupidevilho" alternatively: "seh'-leez"
Kefka: "kef'-kah" (has anyone decided on keh-f'ah with f'ah filled in with the profanity
of your chosing?)
Narshe: "stupideveilmarsh" alternatively: "nar'-shay"
Galuf: "gal'-uf" (like gallop. but with more luf)
Rydia: "rid'-ee-ah"
Zeromus: "who?" alternatively: "ze'-ro-mus"
Frioniel: "frii'-o-ni-el"

[Faith]

Chocobo
coke-obo

I always thought it was, until squaresoft proved me wrong. I hate them now. (not really, but i dislike them for correcting me.)

I thought the samething until Final Fantasy X when they could actually say it. :(

[RedCydranth]

Not this argument again.. LOL

Sephiroth:
Sef-a-roth

Cait Sith: (never had arguments over this one)
Kate Sith

Aeris:
Air-iss

Yuffie: (Like Yiffie with a U!)
Yuh-fee

Rinoa:
Rih-no-ah

Seifer:
See-fur

Eiko: (How the Ei in Eiko is different than Seifer is beyond be)
EEk-o

Zidane: (again, never got controversy over this one)
Zid-ayn

Brahne:
Bron (Rhymes with John, Don and Con)

Eidolon: (This actual non-FF word comes from Greek and thusly pronounced as such. English Ei rule doesn't apply)
"I"-doh-lon

Tidus:
Tie-dus

Chocbo: (I used to say it like Strawberryman and Faith also)
Cho-ko-bo

Bahamut: (I'm wrong on mine.. its local dialect that screws this for me. No persecutions please)
Bah-hum-it

Another controversial name:

Steiner: (Steiner is German and is pronounced as if it were German. I know people with this as their last name and they all say it like I do.)
Sty-ner

[Desert Merchant]

has everyone forgot about that dam electrical bird from ff8 quezocotl

[Masamune·1600]

"Quezacotl", the lightning-elemental GF from FFVIII, is sure to raise some controversy, since it's an abridgement of the real mythological name. That would be "Quetzalcoatl", which didn't fit because the GF names were limited to nine characters.

[Dormos]

^ Which is pronounced "Ket-zahl-koo-ah-tul" ^

[Buster Sword Strike]

Cait sith: Ket-She
From an official guide my friend let me borrow.

[strawberryman]

I'm still saying it that way too. I don't care what square says. It will always be COKE-OBO to me.

[DJZen]

Squall - Emo Pansy
Sephiroth - Total Tool
Cloud - Girly McGirl Girl
Rinoa - Obnoxious Trollop
Heidegger - Daddy :love:
Seifer - Linkin Park Wannabe
Aeris - Obnoxious Dead Trollop

Yeah, I think that pretty much covers it...

[Masamune·1600]

^ Which is pronounced "Ket-zahl-koo-ah-tul" ^

Exactly. The issue resides in the fact that some people probably pronounce the real name, while others say the abridged name. That's all.

[GooeyToast]

Since I don't have anything better to do, I might as well list mine.

Locke: "Lock"
Celes: "Sell-es"
Setzer: "Cet-ser"
Umaro: "Ooom-ar-o"
Sabin: "Sabe-in"
Tifa: "Tee-fa"
Aeris: "Air-is"
Cait Sith: "Kate-Sith"
Nanaki: "Nana-Kee"
Bugenhagen: "Boo-gen-hay-gin"
Sephiroth: "Sep-i-roth" (pretty much ignore the "h")
Jenova: "Ji-no-va"
Heidegger: "High-digger"
Seifer: "Sigh-fer"
Laguna: "La-goon-a"
Kiros: "Keer-os"
Ellone: "Ell-own"
Fuujin: "Foo-jin"
Rajjin: "Rajj-in"
Quistis: "Quis-tis"
Leviathan: "Lev-ee-aye-thin"
Quezacotl: "Quay-za-cot-tul"
Bahamut: "Bah-ha-mut"
Zidane: "Zigh-dane"
Vivi: "Vee-Vee"
Steiner: "Sty-ner"
Freya: "Fray-ya"
Amarant: "Ahm-a-rant"
Eiko: "Eee-ko" (like the underrated PS2 game "Ico")
Oglop: "Ogg-lop"
Chocobo: "Choke-o-bo"
Tidus: "Tide-us"
Auron: "Ore-un"
Yojimbo: "Yo-jim-bo"

[lulusgirl]

Tidus: tee-dus

Valefore: val-for

Bahamut: buh-ha-mut

Ixion: ix-i-on

Yojimbo: yo-jim-bo, just the way it's spelled

for everyone who doesn't belive me...i beat the game and all of my friends that beat the game say the same thing.the wrong way:

Tidus: tie-dus (NO)

Valefore: vail-a-fore (NO)

Bahamut: baa-hah-moot (NO)

Ixion: ix-ee-on (NO)

Yojimbo: well,on one tried to explain it.

But those are the proper ways to say it.

[ShunNakamura]

Well I always pronounced Yuffie as "Yu-fi". But that may just be me.

Tie-dus(Tidus)
Tee-fu(Tifa)
Air-is(Aeris)
Sid(Cid)
Sa-bin(sabin)
Say-fer(Siefer)
E-freet(Ifrit)
Cho-Ko-Bo(Chocobo)

Bahamut: (I'm wrong on mine.. its local dialect that screws this for me. No persecutions please)
Bah-hum-it

I do the same thing :P

[rubah]

for everyone who doesn't belive me...i beat the game and all of my friends that beat the game say the same thing.the wrong way:
I still think Tidus is a alternate spelling of Titus, and that kingdom hearts doesn't know what it's talking about^_^ or something.

Anyways, I'd get a demonologist to tell us how to say valefor, and a greek for ixion, after a bit of wikipediaing and pantheon.org-ing.

[ehsteve]

FFIV
Cecil - See sill (Technically, it is Seh sill, but See sill sounds cooler.)
Rydia - Rid ee uh

FFV
Butz - Boots
Galuf - Gal oof

FFVI
Celes - See Leez
Strago - Stray go
Sabin - Saw bin

FFVII
Tifa - Tih Fuh
Yuffie - You fee
Cait Sith - Kay Seeth

FFX
Tidus - Tee diss
Rikku - Ree Koo

CHRONO TRIGGER
Lucca - Loo Kuh
Janus - Jay niss
Epoch - Epic

FFTA
Marche - Marsh
Doned - Dough Ned
Ivalice - Ih Vuh Liss
Nu Mou - New Moo
Bangaa - Bang uh
Cyril - Sigh rill
Babus - Bab iss

[RedCydranth]

FFTA
Marche - Marsh
Doned - Dough Ned
Ivalice - Ih Vuh Liss
Nu Mou - New Moo
Bangaa - Bang uh
Cyril - Sigh rill
Babus - Bab iss

Here's My list of FFTA:

Marche - Marsh
Doned - Don-ed
Ivalice - I-vah-liss
Nu Mou - New Moo
Bangaa - Bang-gah
Cyril - Seer-ill
Babus - Babe-us

However there was a FFTA commercial aired on television that pronounced Ivalice like (E-vah-lees) and Marche like (Mar-shay) so, We're wrong technically, but I can live with being wrong.

[eestlinc]

GrOgre: Green Ogre

[chionos]

GrOgre: Green Ogre
XD

I have an idiot friend who still says Coke-a-bo, instead of Choke-a-bo.
I want to kill him.