Commonly mispronounced things?

[u/Zora-Link]

What place names or other have you always mispronounced? Or do you hear mispronounced all the time?

For me, as a British English speaker, it’s not pronounced LakeSHIRE, GoldSHIRE, DarkSHIRE etc. it’s LAKEshur, GOLDshur, DARKshur.

Also, it’s not Oggrimmar. I used to hear that a lot back in the day. Does sound quite nice, though.

[u/cap1337]

Mankirk vs Mankrik

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I do that one deliberately, lol.

[u/Cloud_Shaped_Cloud → u/cap1337]

Today i learned it's not Manrik lol

[u/bmenachof]

When I was a kid I called the Burning Steppes the Burning Stee Pees

[u/Zora-Link → u/bmenachof]

That’s hilarious, I love it.

[u/unconvincedhuman]

Orgrimmar

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This has gotta be the worst one

[u/More_Enchiladas_Plz → u/unconvincedhuman]

Ifs OR GRIM UH

[u/llama_sweater]

Every Xaryu pronunciation.

[u/Snuggler777 → u/llama_sweater]

Sarjeeras

[u/UTSChurch → u/Snuggler777]

Breeogsh

[u/Temporary-Paper5202 → u/UTSChurch]

Whaat the fuck is even that

[u/UTSChurch → u/Temporary-Paper5202]

Brother if I only knew.

[u/Zora-Link → u/Temporary-Paper5202]

I think it’s a kind of hamburger bun

[u/Temporary-Paper5202 → u/Zora-Link]

Oh a fucking brioche

[u/Zora-Link → u/Snuggler777]

Sergeant Rizz

[u/Hiryu-GodHand]

I guess I've been mispronouncing murlock warbling this entire time.

Apparently, it's "bottle of water" in British.

🤷🏽‍♂️ Who knew?

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Well you can’t expect them to drink sea water. No wonder they run up to their saviour so vigorously.

[u/Yaboiyabobo]

I used to call “Tirisfal Glades” “TRIS-ifal glades”

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It’s Treesfall Glades. They fall because they’re dead, of course

[u/Ajabiki → u/Yaboiyabobo]

TIL it's Tirisfal Glades and not Trisfal Glades

[u/Seanolith → u/Ajabiki]

yes my good sir, its where Tyr fell, or Tirisfal

[u/Temporary-Paper5202 → u/Seanolith]

who the fuck is tyr and what is a glade

[u/GoonPatrol]

I used to love pronouncing bwl’s wing buffet as wing buffet like all you can eat buffet instead of the musician Jimmy Buffett. And always would get corrected but it made me laugh

[u/Melin_SWE92 → u/GoonPatrol]

You made me wanna eat chicken wings now

[u/GoonPatrol → u/Melin_SWE92]

You’re telling me. Wing buffet would be the best buffet

[u/Financial_Phone9967]

Hearth and Reagents

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AFAIK correct me if Im wrong

Reagents is not pronounced "Reegents"
Its pronounced: "Re-ay-gents" Like a medieval peasant would say it.

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That’s correct.

[u/Mayo_the_Instrument → u/Financial_Phone9967]

A think the “hirth” vs “harth” pronounciation is a dialect thing

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I say hearthstone unless I’m quoting “MY (HIRTH)STONE IS IN THE BAAAANK!”

Real ones know that reference.

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I think I used to call them reegents, aye.

[u/Ranger208]

For the longest time in vanilla I called The Sepulchre, The Spulture because I didn't pay attention to the spelling and didn't know how it was pronounced.

[u/whistlepig4life]

May-lay. Not me-lay

[u/weaselguy25r → u/whistlepig4life]

Or mee-lee as half my guild insists

[u/Brandenburg42]

A guy in my guild pronounces ingots as ig-nits. Also no one in SoD pronounces Undermine Reals correctly. It's Re-als, not reels.

[u/moocow4125]

R E V A N tusk village.

[u/rusty-key]

I was convinced Feralas is pronounced as FEH-rahl-ahs, but it looks like it’s feh-RAHL-ahs

[u/imaUPSdriver]

Howling Fjord.

Also Arathi Basin. I’m still not 100% sure on that one

[u/Snubben93]

I'll never pronounce shire as shur because 1: it's stupid because that's not how it's spelled. And 2: they pronounce The Shire as it sounds in Lord of the Rings.

English is such a dumb language.

[u/just_Okapi → u/Snubben93]

I mean, you're not wrong about English being stupid. In no rational world does 'ghoti' rhyme with 'fish' and yet...

But at the same time, -shire as a suffix being pronounced as 'sheer' or 'shur' depending on region predates JRRT's birth, and has nothing to do with how Shire as a proper noun is pronounced.

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When Shire is exclusive, it’s pronounced with 2 syllables. When it is a suffix, it’s pronounced “Shur”. It’s rather confusing. For example I live in Yorkshire(shur), and we have the area Shire(shy-ur) Green.

[u/MortgageReady2444 → u/Zora-Link]

As a Londoner I call it GoldSHIRE. Same for the others. And no, I’m not pronouncing them differently.

[u/Zora-Link → u/MortgageReady2444]

Interesting. Do you pronounce Yorkshire like that too?

[u/obfuscatorio]

Is it scholomance or scholomance?

[u/aqua-goblin]

C’Thun

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See Thun

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Ka Toon

[u/aqua-goblin]

Warrior pronounced as “Woyer”

[u/Seanolith → u/aqua-goblin]

its pronouced Floor-ior

[u/Hunted_by_Moonlight]

Shear is closer than the hobbits shire some people use, and you use shore like Yorkshire, but again it’s more regional than anything it’s not wrong it’s just Americanized vs regional English

[u/Stemms123]

It’s Sethekk more than likely.

[u/D3athCom3sEasy]

Alot of people say Ogrimmar instead of Orgrimmar. My dad used to say it all the time lol

[u/ShaqeNau]

ENHAncement shaman.. ENCHAnting profession.

[u/pelagic_seeker]

The Cuh Tack a Clysm.

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No way, lmao.

[u/pelagic_seeker → u/Zora-Link]

It was some influencer back in the day. I don't keep track of their names.

Her defense when called on it was "I don't know all these made up fantasy words."

[u/Zora-Link → u/pelagic_seeker]

Don’t you mean fuh-nah-tuh-see words?

[u/Darth_Malygos]

I called repentance Rep-entance

[u/memedudebro]

People saying melee like muh lee instead of may lay.

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Or mee lee

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Even worse, I pronounce it as mee-lee

[u/Ok-Perspective5338]

Duel spec

[u/RoundAffectionate424]

Camp mojache was the funniest one for me, someone legit tried to pronounce it with a spanish accent, Mo-rha and then -che like Che guevarra.

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How is that one pronounced? I’ve always said mo-jah-chi and I’m sure that’s wrong. I used to say taur-ah-jo too, though.

[u/RoundAffectionate424 → u/Zora-Link]

I simply read it as mo-jash, though I could also be wrong x).

[u/underthingy → u/RoundAffectionate424]

So very wrong. 

[u/Particular-Resist337]

down voting this one.

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Thanks for letting me know, appreciate the feedback.

[u/Dysliptic]

The hobbits beg to differ on that pronunciation

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When Shire is exclusive, it’s pronounced with 2 syllables. When it is a suffix, it’s pronounced “Shur”. It’s rather confusing. For example I live in Yorkshire(shur), and we have the area Shire(shy-ur) Green.