I say Mah-ko because it is the official but I thought and still think May-ko sounds better.
I say Mah-ko because it is the official but I thought and still think May-ko sounds better.
Pronouncing it "may-ko"? How? Why? Sounds awful.
Because it's how an english speakers grammar and syllable structure would pronounce it. If it was pronounced like that in Japanese it would probably be spelled Meko instead. Mahko just sounds silly to me, like I'm pronouncing some silly tonguetwister/Dr. Suess type rhyme scheme "Rokko's Paco taco is in his Mahko".
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I still say Mayko and Aeris
Mayko all the way. I think that's the majority pronunciation in the US.
I pronounced it the first way for a long time. When I found her name was supposed to be Aerith, I switched to Heiress. First of all, I'm not sure grammar has anything to do with pronunciation. Secondly, if you consider the first four letters alone "midg", you could easily mistake that for midge as in "midget." Of course, knowing it was named after Midgard (anglicised form of Old Norse name meaning "middle enclosure") the name for the world inhabited by men (in other words, Gaia, Terra, the Planet, etc.) would have helped.
I said it like Heiress, Aries just sounds too masculine for an overly feminine character like Aerith. Though, when I learned what her real name was, I've consistently taken advantage of the name change feature to correct the localization team's mistake. So the pronunciation isn't much of a big deal like the Mako one is.
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
Current Mood: And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than the last. I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself. To hold on to these moments as they pass...
Aeris is clearly not Aries though. I pronounce it Air-is, like the "is" in hiss. Although I do still call her Aerith from time to time in which case the end syllable becomes "ith" like in with.
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