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Gim = Jim
Thom = Tom
Jan = rhymes with tan
Ayla = EYE-la (I know someone who has this name, and this is how she pronounces it)
Tinya = TIN-ya
Tasmia = TAS-mi-a
Luornu = lu-OR-nu
Mysa = MEE-sa
Cham = like "calm," but without so much "L" sound
Querl = rhymes with where'll
Darkseid = darkside
Winath = rhymes with Gwyneth (as in Paltrow)
Braal = brawl
Bgtzl = big-tizzle

I am surprised not to have seen this one mentioned yet...

Shvaugn = ? I think of it as SH-von

Shvaughn seems to be a furture version of Siobhan, which is pronounced "sho-von." That's how I pronounce it.

You say tomato, I say:

Tasmia = TAZ'-mee-uh
Braal = brahl' ("ah" as in "say 'ah'")
Mysa = MISS'-uh

What about Dr. Gym'll? I say GIM'-l(hard G)

HMmmm

The following are how I've always pronounced them:

Mysa = MY suh
Tinya = TIN yuh
Tasmia = TAZ me uh
Cham = Kam
Luornu = Lou OR nuh or Lou OR new (Ive used both)
Ayla = A luh
Salu = SAL ew

For the record...

Gim = Jim
Thom = Tom
Jan = rhymes with tan
Ayla = eh-la (with the "eh" like Canadians say it!)
Tinya = TIN-ya
Tasmia = TAS-me-a
Luornu = lu-OR-nu
Mysa = MY-za
Cham = sham
Querl = kinda like "squirrel" but with one syllable)
Darkseid = darkside
Winath = WHY-neth
Braal = braille
Bgtzl = BICKT-zel

Hey! Let's raise the stakes! Any pronunciation that gets a clear majority---we have to pronounce it that way every time we say it, aloud or in our heads, from now on!

Hey, I was talking about the "future" names that the Legionnaires have, and my friend suggested that Gim, as in Gim Allon, might be an odd spelling of "Jim." We had been pronouncing it "Geem," with the "g" being as in "go." What's the general consensus about this? Is it "Gim," "Geem," "Jim" or "Jeem"?

I've always read it as "Jim" as in Gym class.

I've always pronounced it as "Jim."

I've always used the hard 'g' to pronounce it Gim instead of Jim.

I'm so used to Elvish that I generally assume that G and C are always hard.

Of course I still get a chuckle out of pronouncing vicissum as we kiss em.

Cen

I've always pronounced it as "Jim", but it probably is a hard "G" now that you've got me thinking about it.

I always thought the 'g' was a hard 'g' as well.

This is funny!

See, I've always pronounced it the Spanish way: Khim (similar to 'him', as in him or her).

If the correct sound in his name was the hard 'g', in Spanish one would spell his name 'Guim' (the u here is mute); if the correct sound was the soft 'g', in Spanish we'd spell his name Yim.

Not that any of this matters, seeing that the comic book is written in English...

Another one for the hard G here, although pretty much any of the pronunciations could be right. I'm quite taken by Juan's Spaish pronunciation though.

Always said Gim as in gimboid

Hard g here.

Another hard G

Changing to the shameless hussy. Is it pronounce "I'm a" or "Er ma" (I pronounce it "Erma"

And yet another hard G here too. Don't you just love these fun future names?

It always hit me as a Jim. Never once thought of it as a hard "G".

I'm thinking we could expand this topic too. We did it once on another board, but have yet to see it here (doesn't mean we haven't done, it's just that I haven't seen it).

Other names with suspect pronunciations:

Ayla - Eye Luh
Shvaughn - Sh Von
Bgztl - Bigzittle
Querl - Like Squirrel but without the "S"


Feel free to add any others.

Ayla I think of as aye-la, Shvaughn always just seems like another spelling of Siobhan to me. Bgtzl... eh, that's one of those names that i just sort of mentally skip because I have no clue as to how it's supposed to be said.

And Querl is exactly how you've put it minesurfer, assuming you're talking with an American accent.

Over at the GLA yahoo group I seem to remember a lot of discussion about how Thom is pronounced too. Is it just 'Tom' spelt with an h or do you pronounce it actually with a hard, or soft, 'th'? Personally I've just read it as 'Tom'.

You caught me. I was actually using my fake Cockney accent. I'll go back to sounding American.

Thom = Tom as far as I'm concerned.

I've never seen Tomas. So it only makes sense that when you shorten Thomas to Thom that you retain the sound of the initial syllable.

Which would bring us to an interesting situation with the initial "Gim" that started this thread.

To me Gim = Jim. Since Jim is shortened from James, a logical conlusion would be that Gim is shortened from Games. To me Games has a hard "G", but for some reason I can't pronounce Gim with a hard "G".

Imra = himra without the h

Gates has a funny real name too, but I can't remember it off the top of my head. His planet would also be susceptible to sophomoric proununciations too I believe.

This all brings up the question of how do you pronounce Siobhan? (and don't say it's pronounced Shvaughn either, 'cause if you did I would have to think that you are a rabid anti-Stu-dite).

Ayla - A (as in hay or weigh) la

Bgtzl - Big-zle (I leave the T as silent

Shvaughn - Shih-Vaughn

I've always thought of them this way:
"Jim"
"Tom"
"Eye-luh"

Here's the tough one: is the shortened version of Shrinking Violet's name pronounced Veye or Vee? I realize that Veye is more logical (and has been used in the book), but for some reason Vee has always seemed more natural to me. I've always though of it as just the first letter of "Violet" rather than the first two letters.

I suppose I'm the only one who pronounces it that way.