Pokemon Pronunciations

[Plague von Karma]

We've all had those times where we want to punch someone in the face after arguing valiantly about whether it's Arse-us or Arc-ayy-us, or Miss-dree-vus or Miss-dra-vus.

Battle it out here!

 

[Ununhexium]

Arr see us
Miss dree vus
Arr kay nine

 

[IBM]

Muk is pronounced mook

 

[War Incarnate]

Porygon-Z is pronounced Poree-Gon-Zee

 

[Celticpride]

I stopped watching the anime after gen 2 or 3 so everything after that is a giant crapshoot

 

[earl]

I remember hearing somewhere that the official pronunciation of Pidgeot is Pidge-it and I can’t deal with that

 

[MAMP]

gene-sect

 

[Adeleine]

gen-uh-sect (hard g)

mis-dray-vus or mis-dree-ay-vus

miss-mah-jyus

gar-day-vwa

ban-ett-tuh

eh-ter-not-uss

why-vell-tal and ex-ern-e-us

es-ka-va-lee-er or es-kuh-la-vuh-ee-er

kel-eh-bee


I could find more but do you really want that

 

[Plague von Karma]

So what I've learned so far is none of y'all used Pokedex 3D Pro

 

[Ironmage]

I usually default to whatever (classical) Latin does for its pronunciation when I'm unsure, due to it actually having rules unlike English. There's one result of this that I've yet to see someone else use:

Eye-gis(hard)-lash

 

[Bughouse]

gur aff a ridge

 

[CaffeineBoost]

Just gonna cover some of the controversial ones:
Gyarados: ɡærədoʊs (the way wikipedia intended)
Arceus: I switch between the two, though I tend to say arse-e-us when I'm talking more casually.
Porygon2 and Porygon-Z: Pee-2, Pee-zed
Mew: μ
Hitmonchan: ɡɑː(r)bɪdʒ

 

[Adeleine]

you know, like a gyre

 

[Ehmcee]

Here's a short list of official pronunciations, that are wrong in my book.

gar-boh-durr (Garbodor) (gar-boh-dor)

man-teen (Mantine) (i say man-tine, LIKE ITS WRITTEN).

fan-pee (Phanpy) (fan-fee)

rye-koh (Raikou) (rye-kew)

sep-tile (Sceptile) (skep-tile)

 

[phoopes]

For gens 1-4 I go with what the Pokemon Battle Revolution announcer said

https://chfoo.github.io/pbrchase/

Also this is just a hilarious soundboard in general

 

[Sijih]

Here's a short list of official pronunciations, that are wrong in my book.

...

sep-tile (Sceptile) (skep-tile)

all of these I agree with except Sceptile, I don't pronounce the c

Shoutout to Wolfe Glick saying "to-jeh-kiss" and "cinder-ach-ay"

Also in Japanese the emphasis in "Pokémon" is on the e (and in other languages too, the diacritic indicates where emphasis is) but I still pronounce it with the emphasis on o

 

[Snessy!]

Shoutout to Wolfe Glick saying "to-jeh-kiss" and "cinder-ach-ay"

jenjar

 

[Lina]

Arceus - Ar-kee-us

 

[Oglemi]

This is why we need the announcer from the pokemon stadium games

 

[BIG ASHLEY]

jenjar

wolfe's pronunciation is fucking spot on. rejijijijas, anyone?

 

[toaster04]

fair-ro-thorn (Ferrothorn)

tie-ran-it-tar (Tyranitar), easiest one available

tor-chic (Torchic) also a very easy one

These aren't that hard to get right but I've been seeing people often pronounce Articuno (arc-tic-uno).

 

[Andy Snype]

gene-sect
ee-jis-lash but i will also call it egg or age
eternitus like eternities but us
rake-oo

 

[CoolMan6001]

all of these I agree with except Sceptile, I don't pronounce the c

Shoutout to Wolfe Glick saying "to-jeh-kiss" and "cinder-ach-ay"

Also in Japanese the emphasis in "Pokémon" is on the e (and in other languages too, the diacritic indicates where emphasis is) but I still pronounce it with the emphasis on o

Drag-on-it-ay.

As said on one of his reaction videos.

 

[WaterBomb]

mahg-NEM-ih-tay
tan-JEL-la
gay-OH-doo-day

 

[phoopes]

Don't be cowards, post yourselves pronouncing your awful pronunciations