Pronunciation helpersFollow

So after listening to the mog house and hearing a lot of names being butchered, I wonder if it might be a nice idea to have a link to a wav file of someone sayig the names for items, zones, and npc.

"Qufim" = "Koo Fim"

There's no damn 'i' after the 'u.'

When in doubt, look at the nice phonetic japanese spellings. Qufim is koo-fim or kuu-fim.

good point, neesh. I actually habitually refer to the Japanese names of items or locations in order to get pronunciations correct. sometimes, it's just the only way, as some of the location/item names just don't have a logical English pronunciation

I think as the replies to this thread suggest, it would be next to impossible to get agreement on every pronunciation, also who gets to decide what the "official" pronunciation is - in the absence of any phonetic guides from the developers each item/place/npc's page could well end up as a discussion on the pronunciation of such-and-such.

It's an interesting idea but one I think will create more problems than it solves.

haha I didn't even see that in it til you said that!

I swear one day there were all of a sudden new letters added onto the names of places:

Ogrimmar turned into Orgrimmar
Trisifal Glades turned into Tirisifal Glades
etc;

Maybe I was just being lazy in reading. It totally screwed me up for a long time...