Zelda Things I Mispronounce

[MrTalida]

I'm riffing off that Gibdo thread from earlier:

I got my first Zelda game when I was about 7 years old, back when my reading comprehension wasn't the greatest. As a result, I have a bunch of words and names from the Zelda series that I mispronounce to this very day, even though I now know better.

For example:

1. Hylian and Hylia I pronounce "Hill ee ann" instead of the correct pronunciation of "Hai lee ann"
2. Keese I pronounce "Kee zee" (rhymes with "easy") instead of the more likely "Kees" (sounds like "keys")
3. Cuckoo I pronounce "Koo koo" (like the bird or the clock) instead of what I think may be "Cuck ooo" (although, this one I'm not certain about)
4. Kakariko I pronounce "Kah care ih koh" (care as in "I care about you"), instead of the correct "Ka ka ree koh"
5. Moblin I pronounce "Moh blin" instead of "Mob lin" (sounds like "goblin"). This one I actually think I am correct about, though. Based on the spelling, "Moh blin" is how the Japanese would pronounce it as well, so I take that as authoritative in this case.
6. And finally, Link I pronounce "Zel dah" (joking )

What do you think of these wild pronunciations?? What are some things you pronounce strangely from Zelda games?

 

[Chevywolf:30]

Nice list, I respect anyone who knowingly mispronounces stuff because it's fun.

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

When I was 4 years old I would pronounce Ocarina as "Or cah" lol

 

[Link&Midna]

ilia is supposedly "illy-ya" but I say eye-lee-ya

 

[MrTalida]

When I was 4 years old I would pronounce Ocarina as "Or cah" lol

Hah! When I first heard the title of Ocarina of Time, I pronounced it much the same as you! I was corrected eventually, but at first I was calling it "Oh car in uh" of Time!

 

[thePlinko]

Everyone pronounces Fi wrong but me, including Nintendo.

 

[Killjoy262]

I'm riffing off that Gibdo thread from earlier:

I got my first Zelda game when I was about 7 years old, back when my reading comprehension wasn't the greatest. As a result, I have a bunch of words and names from the Zelda series that I mispronounce to this very day, even though I now know better.

For example:

1. Hylian and Hylia I pronounce "Hill ee ann" instead of the correct pronunciation of "Hai lee ann"
2. Keese I pronounce "Kee zee" (rhymes with "easy") instead of the more likely "Kees" (sounds like "keys")
3. Cuckoo I pronounce "Koo koo" (like the bird or the clock) instead of what I think may be "Cuck ooo" (although, this one I'm not certain about)
4. Kakariko I pronounce "Kah care ih koh" (care as in "I care about you"), instead of the correct "Ka ka ree koh"
5. Moblin I pronounce "Moh blin" instead of "Mob lin" (sounds like "goblin"). This one I actually think I am correct about, though. Based on the spelling, "Moh blin" is how the Japanese would pronounce it as well, so I take that as authoritative in this case.
6. And finally, Link I pronounce "Zel dah" (joking )

What do you think of these wild pronunciations?? What are some things you pronounce strangely from Zelda games?

You can have my like. xD
I always thought it was Coo Coh
What if Zelda was a girl?

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

Hah! When I first heard the title of Ocarina of Time, I pronounced it much the same as you! I was corrected eventually, but at first I was calling it "Oh car in uh" of Time!

I'm still on that same boat actually

a recent one though is Sidon, which is "sigh-don" but I went w/ "cid-on"

 

[twilitfalchion]

I always read bokoblin as "boh-kahblin" since I was a kid but apparently it's boko-blin? At least, that's the way I hear it said most often.

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

I started back in the day by pronouncing Kakariko as ka-kar-EE-koh but many years ago, I Heard a YouTuber pronounce it kuh-KAH-rih-koh and I decided that pronunciation actually made more sense as I think a the word would come to be pronounced this way in Hyrule. I believe it was Hyrule Warriors when I first Heard a licensed Nintendo property pronounce it the way I originally did but I bounce back and forth between pronunciations anyway.

I definitely pronounce Hylia the correct way since it's my oldest daughter's name (HAI-lee-uh although most of my extended family can't wrap their mind around it and call her hai-LEE-uh) and...what else...I used to pronounce Termina ter-MIHN-ee-uh. Ephixia pronounced Deku DEE-koo back in the day and it rubbed me the wrong way. Fun music by the way.

Parental discretion

 

[MrTalida]

Everyone pronounces Fi wrong but me, including Nintendo.

If you say "fai" instead of "fee", we are going to have a problem (jk jk jk)

 

[Killjoy262]

My mawmaw would always pronounce the third dungeon(for the Zora's Sapphire) as Juba-Juba, and called the Kikwi "Kiwis".

I always pronounced Farore as Fay-roar-ay.

 

[MrTalida]

The kikwi look quite a bit like kiwis, so I think that's a good name for them!

I think I pronounce Farore "fuh roar".

 

[Killjoy262]

The kikwi look quite a bit like kiwis, so I think that's a good name for them!

I think I pronounce Farore "fuh roar".

I've heard "Fuh-roar" and "Fah-roar/Fay-roar"

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

If you say "fai" instead of "fee", we are going to have a problem (jk jk jk)

Boo! Fi is latin for faithful and is pronounced FAI. Sounds like it's time to rumble!

I have always pronounced it FARE-or but I like the sound of far-OR-ay.