This Invites Curiosity...

[Mirage]

I pronounce it cypher. I don't think any north european would pronounce it in a different way.

[Branwen]

I've always pronounced it as sy-fer. No idea why. The same reason i guess as why i say ty-dus instead of tee-dus.....Meh. Who cares anyway. Say it how you wanna say it.

[Sergeant Hartman]

>>> Its Say-pher for me..

I'm with black orb on this one.

[*~Angel Wing~*]

meh, call it what you want. I'm not about to change the way I pronounce it in my head because of the way a character on KH pronounces it. Who says the programmers' and creators' english is perfect?

YOU TELL 'EM!!!

It's "See-fer", so everyone else shut up.

[IceAngel]

lol, well ive decided that could maybe thats why they decided to do voices later on in the game series. That you can call or pronounce them anyway you want !

[Moon Rabbits]

Everything is spelled phonetically in Japanese, so there's little if any room for ambiguity when it comes to pronounciation. And according to the kana used to spell Seifer, it's pronounced like cipher.

Cypher/cipher for me.

As little as I know/care to know about the Japanese language, wouldn't Tidus indeed be pronounced /tee-dus/? Wasn't his name originally Tiida or something...? As far as I know i makes an 'ee' sound in Japanese so...Tee-dus is my guess, perhaps Tie-dus would be romanization?

Then again, this isn't about Tidus' name...

So yes, I say Cypher/cipher (s'far as I know those'd sound the same)

[Zeromus_X]

Seifer->'Cyfer', "Saifaa"

Tida-> 'Teeda', "Tiida"

Like Kishi said, it isn't that hard to find the pronunciation on these words, since Japanese is all phonetic and all.

[zbonks]

I say cypher because of the way the i and e are arranged. If "seifer" was spelled like Siefer, then it would be pronounced See-fer, but it is arranged like Seifer, so it is cypher

[rubah]

That's more like German. In the english language, "ei" is pronounced 'ee' as in the old "i before e, except in receive" rule.

meh, call it what you want. I'm not about to change the way I pronounce it in my head because of the way a character on KH pronounces it. Who says the programmers' and creators' english is perfect?

seismograph is an english word. and it's not 'seesmograf'

[Jessweeee♪]

Yes, I don't find KH a reliable source to find how to pronounce character names since selphie said "ty-dus" (though personally i do think its tee-dus...wish it were tydus)
anywho...i've always said cypher.

[crazybayman]

seismograph is an english word. and it's not 'seesmograf'

True.
But as I said earlier, you also have receive, pronounced 're-ceeve', and not 're-cyve'

So there are arguments to both pronounciations.

As well, my girlfriend has a professor with the last name Seifert. Pronounced See-fert.

The first time she mentioned Dr. Seifert in conversation, I was like "OMG U TTLY HV A FF CHARACTER AS A PROF OMG LOL WTF?!?!?!"

[Jessweeee♪]

I BEFORE E EXCEPT AFTER C!!!
what?

please...don't turn this into the ty-dus vs. teedus thread...that thing is a nightmare!

[Rinoa2005]

All my friends here in Venezuela pronounce it ....Say-Fur.

[Captain Maxx Power]

I pronounce it the same way I would Cipher, namely "Si-fer".