I'm creating this thread so that there's a place where I can ask how something is supposed to be pronounced or ask for theories on how something is pronounced.

How do you pronounce "Ka-Zar?"


Is it pronounced "Kah Zahr" or "Kay Zahr?"

The latter I think.

"Kah Zahr" , but i'm French.

Tar-zan.

I always pronounced it Kay-zar

Me too... but I am absolutely TERRIBLE at pronunciation. For years, I was mispronouncing Rob Liefeld's last name because I have a weird, but mild, form of verbal dyslexia that causes me to muck up vowel sounds with two syllable words. So I was pronouncing it "Lie-field." Once I hear a word pronounced correctly, I get it... but if there's nobody around to do that, I can get stuck. It's something I had to work on as I got older. You should have heard me try to pronounce "Sienkiewicz."

It's pronounced "KAY-zar". The pronunciation was spelled out in his first appearance.

Thanks all, looks like I had been pronouncing it right after all.

Another example of that pronunciation problem I have was how I first pronounced the name of the X-Men's "Rogue" when I was a kid. I pronounced it "Row-Goo," almost like the that spaghetti sauce.

Kayzer the Ham-gazer

Row-goo?
I shouldn't laugh. I can't pronounce much of anything correctly.

Go ahead and laugh. I do!

Then when a friend of mine finally told me that it was pronounced "Rohg," I thought that name sounded stupid.

I guess I knew what a rogue was very early in life.

Some comic collectors I knew pronounce John Byrne as Bye-rin.

When I was in college the first time (before going into the service), I went with a friend to a comic shop and saw a magazine there called "Femme Fatales." It had some scream queen on the cover that I recognized and I turned to my bud and I said, "You ever read this here 'Femmy Fatals' magazine?" Ten years later, he was still bringing that one up.

We used to argue in the schoolyard about whether that porn mag Chic was pronounced "Chick" or "Shiek."

My cousin used to refer to the long-defunct men's magazine Oui as "Oh You Eye".

Okay, how do you pronounce "Nguyen?"

The "ng" sound with "wen" immediately after it. "Ngwen".

At least, that's how the Vietnamese kid I went to high school with who had that as his last name pronounced it.

"Newun" is how I've heard it pronounced.

I've always pronounced it just like "when".

This is, of course, Vietnamese filtered through an Aussie accent.

I think I still have the first three issues of Femme Fatales in the cupboard, somewhere. Never saw Chic or Oui.