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What's the worst you've ever heard a Pokemon name mis-pronounced?

Mawa

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  • And until literally just barely, I thought Phione was pronounced "fie-own", instead of its correct pronunciation, which is "fee-oh-nay".

    Oh? I did it too!

    I do say Ray-kwa-za too ...

    And I know Pidgey is Pid-jeebut I still say Pid-Jay
     

    AliceBlaze

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  • The Hoenn Pokerap pronouncing Kyogre as Kee-Oh-Gree when it's actually Ky-Oh-Guh and pronouncing Beldum as Bed-Lum.

    Even though it's not a Pokemon name, Chuggaaconroy mispronounced Canalave City as Can-a-Lar-Vay in his Platinum LP until people corrected him.

    I used to think Entei was pronounced like hentai until I watched the third movie and I thought Suicune was pronounced Soo-Is-Oon until I watched the fourth movie. Lucahjin mispronounced it as Soo-Seen in her Heart Gold LP until people corrected her. She now jokingly calls the legendary beasts Geico, Hentai and Sweetcorn.

    Until I heard its name in the anime, I somehow misread Metagross as Metacross and got its name mixed up with Heracross.

    I didn't realise Eelektrik had two e's in its name at first and thought it was pronounced the same as electric.
     

    TheLegendaryGuy

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  • I have a kid in my neighbourhood, who loves pokemon a lot. He pronounces Entei as Aunty. I have told him a thousand times till now not to say so but (i dont know why) he keeps on pronouncing the same thing.
     
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    I've had Rattata be pronounced as ratatatatata. I was like wow dude you even look at the name before you started bumbling through it?
     

    El Diabeetus

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    Arceus which is supposed to be Ar-say-oos (think like Zeus or deus).

    Kanto = It's named after Kanto, Japan. Khan-toh, like the khan in Kangaskhan. Can-toe is wrong. The dub pronounciations aren't always correct.
     

    stzy

    the battlefield got weird.
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  • Wow I'm actually learning so much from this thread. A bunch of pronunciations I thought I had down I was no where close XD Also, I remembered one I still have trouble with. Reuniclus. I think it stemmed from me being too lazy to actually sound out the letters (I know, sad life). I usually pronounce it "re-unucleus" anyway, even though I know it's wrong.

    Oh, and i also cannot Pronounce Dragalge.
    Is it a "Dra-Galje", or "Drag-Alje", or "Dra-Galge", or maybe "Dra-Galgey"
    Someone please help Me :|

    I could be wrong but I believe it would be "DRAYG-ALJ", as in "dragon" and "algae" combined. That's what it is, isn't it? Like, seaweed-dragon Pokemon? Whatever lol.
     
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