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Jim
Tom
A (as in hey!) la

and...

Bugzuttle!

This is how I used to pronounce it when I was a kid. Back in the late '80s I finally realized that it probably was just a creative spelling for "Jim" and have pronounced it hte former way ever since.

OFFICIAL NON-DEBATEBALE LEGION PRONUNCIATION KEY

Rokk Krinn = ROCK KRIN (rhymes with grin)
Imra Ardeen = IM-rah AHR-deen
Garth Ranzz = GAHRTH RHANZ
Lourno Durgo = LOO-or-nooh DUHR-go
Tinya Wazzo = TIN-yah WHA-zo
Gim Allon = JIM AL-lohn
Reep Daggle = REEP DAG-gel
Lyle Norg = LYLE NORG
Jenni Ognats = JEN-nee AWHG-nats
Querl Dox = QWIRRL (rhymes wirth squirrel) DOCKS
Dirk Morgna = DIRK MORG-nah
Salu Digby = SAY-loo DIG-bee
Ayla Rannnz = EYE-la RHANZ
Jan Arrah = JAN AIR-uh
Lar GAND = LAHR GAND
Joe Nah = JOE NAH
Nura Nal - NOOR-uh NAL
Brin Londo = BRIN LOHN-doe
Shikari = SHICK-ar-ee
Gear = TOKE-en
Ti'julk M'suraz = TEE-jhulk MY-sore-ass
Shvaugh Erin = SHAWN AIR-ehn
Gigi Cuisimano = JEE JEE QUASI-mohn-oh
Zoe Saugn = ZOH-ee ZHON
Thom Kallor = TOM KAL-lohr

Bgztl = BIGS-till
Carrg = KAR-guh
Colu = KAW-loo


More to come....

I've always pronounced Gim as Jim, not because it's my name, but because he's occasionally been called Giant Gim or Gigantic Gim, which I take to be an alliterating nickname. Jigantic Gim just sounds dumb.

I've always pronounced Salu as Sall-oo, not Say-loo.

Thom as Tom. One of my best friends spells his name this way.

Nura as Nuhr-uh

Shikari as Shuh-KAR-ee

Ayla as A-luh

Luornu as Lorna, just to make it easier.

Cuisimano as Koo-zee-mahn-oh (which brings up the question of is GiGi a hard or soft G? Or one of each? )

and Tyroc as Token.

Everybody else I agree with the Duke on.

I used to as well, but it bugged me to have all those people on HEE HAW jumping up out of cornfields yelling her name all the time, so I changed it.

Don't know if this affects your pronunciations, but the spellings are Ti'julk Mr'asz and Zoe Saugin.

Jim
Tom
Loo-OR-noo
SAH-loo
EYE-luh
IM-rah
Big-ZIT-sul

Since it came up in "JLA Adventures" with the Legion, how do you pronounce "Kilg%re"??

I read it like the % wasn't there, and the most appropriate vowel "o" was. It was Kilgore to me.

This is the one thing about the issue that I didn't like. I mean everytime I was really starting to get into the Legioness of the issue, trying to figure out how to pronounce the Kilg%re just threw me back into the real world. It really broke up the rhythm of the issue, until I just decided Kilgore it is.

I tried once putting the word "percent" in place of the %, but "Kilgpercentre" just doesn't work visually.

I've always assumed "Thom" to be "Tom"

But I used to read "Imra" as "Irma" until I realized I was transposing letters.

And I always read Querl as "quairl" (more of an "a" sound than an "e"). But the "squirrel" comparison makes sense.

And I always treated the pronunciation of "VI" as "VEYE" as that was the abbreviated version of the full "Violet". It's either that or her friends were calling her "Roman Numeral Six"!

Vi has always been Vee for me.

Gim = Jim for me too.
Salu = sah-loo

And am I the only one who read "Zoe" as "Zo" (kinda like Jo or Joe) until just recently? Yeesh, the things we learn (Or don't learn) over here!

Hard "g" on Gim for me.

But I never thought of pronouncing it "Geem" before. That almost makes him sound French: "Geem a-LON."

Another hard G.

I always pronounced Querl like it was spelt but pronouncing it like it rhymes with squirrel is genius.

and Bgztl= Big-Zittle

What about Jan? I remember someone was telling me once that they pronounced it "Yon".

For me: Gim (Jim), Ayla (EYE-luh), Imra (IM-ruh), Salu (SAH-loo), Bgztl (BIGZ-tull), Zoe (ZO-eeee), Querl (KWER-ull)

What will really be entertaining will be if any large number of us get together this summer in San Diego.

Sidne Gail Ward has told me, of the "Legion of Super-Gamblers" meetings in Las Vegas from recent years, that it was truly amusing to have many Legion fans up close and personal -- and constantly adjusting their pronunciations of the characters' names!

Zoe was always Zoe (rhymes with go) to me.

Is there any way to post .wav files of people saying the names properly?

Eye-la
Sah-loo
V-eye
Shi-vauhn

I just remembered another one I used to mispronounce, many years ago as a kid. When the Legionnaires would call Reep "Cham", I used to pronounce it with a soft-C, so I was reading it as "Sham". And I couldn't understand why his nickname would be Sham, since it was short for "Chameleon Boy". Hindsight reveals I was the one with the failing logic. Of course "Cham" is with a hard-C sound and a silent "h". I now think of it like "Kam" (rhymes with jam)

That's funny! I thought I was the only one who did that, Omni.

I've always pronounced Cham as "sham," too.

If you think about it, it does make sense. A sham is something fake, after all.

How about Mekt?

I've always assumed it rhymed with "sect", but it could also be a long e or even a long a sound.

Hi,

Just got back from a discussion on how to pronounce Element Lad's alias - so i decided to take it one step further with:

Brainiac 5 - Querl Dox (Pronounced: Kwirl Dokes or Docks?)
Bouncing Boy - Chuck Taine (Tayne or Tyne?)
Blok - pronounced "Block" or the Aussie expression "Bloke"?
Chameleon Boy - Reep Daggle (Reap Daygul?)
Cosmic Boy - Rokk Krinn (Ruck Krenn?)
Colossal Boy - Gim Allon (is the G pronounced as J or a softer G, Is Allon pronounced All-on or A-lon?
Chemical King - Condo Arlik (Carndo Orlick or Ah-lick)
Dream Girl - Nura Nal (Nuhrah? Noorah? and is the surname pronounced Now?)
Duo Damsel - Luornu Durgo (Loo-or-noo Dirjo or is the g sound softer?)
Invisible Kid - Lyle Norg (Li-ul Nore-g)
Karate Kid - Val Armorr (Vahl Ah-more)
Lightning Lad - Garth Ranzz (Gorth or Gahr-ff, Rah-nzz or Rains?)
Light Lass (i always wondered if her first name was pronounced Ay-lah or I-lah?)
Matter-Eater Lad - Tenzil Kem (Ten-zul Chem)
Mon-el - Lar Gand (Lah-r or Lay-r Gann-d or Gah-nd)
Phantom Girl - Tinya Wazzo (Teen-ya or as its spelt, Wazzo (Wasso or Way-zoh)
Saturn Girl - Imra Ardeen (Eem-rah or Imm-ra, Ardeen (rhymes with sardine) or Ahr-de-en?)
Shadow Lass - Tasmia Malor (in some issues was written as Mallor) Taz-myah or Taz-mee-uh, Maylor or Muh-lor)
Shrinking Violet - Salu Digby (Say-lu or Sah-lu Dig-bee or Die-g-bee)
Sun Boy - Dirk Morgna (Durk Morr-gnah)
Star Boy - Thom Kallor (Thom...as in Thomas or as "Fom")? Kah-lor or Kay-lor
Ultra Boy - Jo Nah (Joe Nuh or Na-ah)?
White Witch - Mysa Nal (is Mysa pronounced Mice-uh, or is the s sound harsh like the word "miser"?)

Pick out what you like from the group and discuss it with other posters or think about what your interpretations of the names might be. I guess the pronounciation differs according to various American dialects. But have a go...at least it gets u thinking.

Bye!

Here are my thoughts;

Brainiac 5 - Querl Dox (Pronounced: Querl = Kwhirl like Whirl with a k in front; Dox = Cox, box, lox )
Bouncing Boy - Chuck Taine (like Cain i.e Cain & Abel)
Blok - (pronounced "Block")
Chameleon Boy - Reep Daggle (Reap Daygul- yep that's how I "hear" it)
Cosmic Boy - Rokk Krinn (Rokk = Rock; Krinn = Grin with a K instead of G)
Colossal Boy - Gim Allon (I've always thought of it as "Jim", Allon = Allen with an O as is "on")
Chemical King - Condo Arlik (Condo pronounced like condominium; Arlick = Are+lick)
Dream Girl - Nura Nal (Nura = like Guru but ending in an A; Nal = Cal as in Calvin)
Duo Damsel - Luornu Durgo (Loo-or-noo is how I say it; Durgo = Durango without the middle sylabel)
Invisible Kid - Lyle Norg (Lyle as it is commonly pronounced; Norg like Borg from Star Trek)
Karate Kid - Val Armorr (Vahl Armorr = armor as in "shining armor")
Lightning Lad - Garth Ranzz (Garth = Garth Brooks; Ranzz pronounced like the first part of Tanzania)
Light Lass (I've always thought of it as I-lah?)
Matter-Eater Lad - Tenzil Kem (Ten-zul Chem ~ yep, that's how I "hear" it)
Mon-el - Lar Gand (Lar = Car; Gand = Sand; also interesting is his codename which comes from Monday ~ the day he was found by Superboy ~ but I've never pronounced it like the Mon in Monday rather I pronounce it like Don or Con)
Phantom Girl - Tinya Wazzo (Tinya as its spelt; Wazzo = wha-zoo with the acccent on the first sylabel)
Saturn Girl - Imra Ardeen (Imra = Iirma with the letters inverted; Ardeen = garden)
Shadow Lass - Tasmia Malor (Tasmia = Taz-mee-uh; Mallor like Mallory without the Y sound)
Shrinking Violet - Salu Digby (Salu = Sah-lu Digby = Dig-bee)
Sun Boy - Dirk Morgna (Dirk = Kirk; Morgna = More-gnah)
Star Boy - Thom Kallor (Thom just like Tom with a T sound as in time not a "Th" as in thought; Kallor = the same as Mallor ~ see above)
Ultra Boy - Jo Nah (if always pronounced this as if it were just Jonah with a slight hesitation between the first and last names)
White Witch - Mysa Nal (Mysa pronounced Mesa like Lisa, and Nal the same as I do Nura's last name ~ see above)

I agree with all but these two, Vee:

I've always thought it would the last name would rhyme with "waggle;" in other words, the first syllable would rhyme with "rag."

Always assumed it was "My" as in the first person possessive.

ok i will try again. i thought that during the levitz era there was a list of how to pronounce legion names...maybe in a letters column.

am i on crack?