Pronunciation

[zacks_clone]

bahamut=bah-hay-mute. odd.hehe

[TasteyPies]

Dont forget Laguna!

I always pronounced it Lug-nuh (like Lugnut and nuh-uh)

untill my friends kept pestering me. I now pronounce it Lagg-guh-nuh

[Del Murder]

Toughies:
Bahamut - Baw-haw-mute
Seifer - sometimes I say 'safer' sometimes 'sipher' sometimes 'sef-year'

Easy:
Laguna - la-goo-na
Irvine - ir-vine

Screw it:
esuna - heal

[TasteyPies]

Laguna - la-goo-na

No lagg-GUH-na like a gunner with lagg, lagg gunnuh

[Del Murder]

I cannot picture those fuzzy little moomas saying anything of the sort.

[TasteyPies]

Funny you should mention that because i was just thinking i couldnt picture them saying anything else.

[Strider]

Irvine and Laguna were named after two cities in Southern California, Irvine and Laguna Beach. Thus, the pronounciation of the cities is the same as the characters.

Irvine = urr-vine
Laguna = lah-goo-nuh

Others:

Bahamut = bah-hum-it
Seifer = see-fur

[zacks_clone]

Toughies:
Screw it:
esuna - heal

hahaha!yup!


Seifer=Sigh-fur
Laguna=Lag-gune-na
irving=er-ving

[TasteyPies]

Seifer = sigh-fer
Eada = eed-uh (friends say Ed-a)
Rinoa = rie-no-uh
Irvine = ir-vine (dont see any other way!)
Kiros- kee-rows

This is why i hate English, so many different ways of pronunciation.....

Thank you Zampanian

[Rase]

Cho-ko-bo.... with the "ch" sounded like it does in in the word church.

[Kirobaito]

Bahamut - Bah hah mutt
Seifer - Sye ferr
Rydia - Ridd ee uh
Rinoa - Rinn oh uh
Chocobo - Cho kuh boh
Laguna - Luh gune uh
Irvine - Err Vine
Yuffie - Yuff ee
Cloud - Clowd
Edea - Uh day uh

[Big D]

FFVIII:

Laguna = Lag-yoo-na, but Lag-oona (as in Laguna Seca, the legendary US raceway) is also OK.

Irvine = Er-vine.

Quistis = Kwis-tiss.

Edea - Ed-ee-ah (a tough one, not too clear).

Rinoa - Rin-oah ('oah' as in 'Noah').

Seifer - Cypher

Kiros - Kee-ros

FFVII:

Tifa - Tee-fa

Yuffie - Yoo-fie (although I always called her yuff-ee until learning of the KH pronunciation)

Sephiroth - Sef - ee - roth

Aeris - Eye-riss, or Ayer-iss (like Ayer's Rock)

Nanaki - Nan-aah-kee

And as it's already been mentioned...
Barret - Bare-It (thanks to Bleys. I always used to pronounce it 'Barret', but now there's no going back).

FFIX:

Zidane - Zid-ayne (rhymes with 'pain')

Quina - Kwee-nah

Kuja - Koo-ja

Brahne - Braan - uh (Germanic pronunciation of the final 'e').





Miscellaneous:

Chocobo - cho-ko-bo (I used to pronounce it as 'ko-ko-bo', but assigning the 'ko' sound to both 'cho' and 'co' seems wrong).

Bahamut - bah-ha-mut ('mut' is more like 'moot', here - a long 'u').

Ramuh - Raam-uh.

Esuna - Ez-yoo-na.

Cid - ksheeoilled.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

Cid - ksheeoilled.

ROTFFLMFAO

[BG-57]

Actually if Cid is named for the El Cid, the Legendary Spanish hero, then in Spanish it is either pronounced 'Theed' (Castilian) or 'Seed' (other dialects). Of course I say 'Sid'.

[ForeverZeroUltima]

these pronunciations are weird...^_^;