BJD pronunciations!

I say it Ipplehouse too. It may just be my slight southern accent getting in the way though.

 

I've always said it like "eye-pull-house" but everyone at our meets say it like "ipple-house", which I think is kinda funny considering we're all from the same area. Maybe it's our roots though, because I think some people came up from the south.

For DZ Feilian I've always thought of it like "Fey-lee-an", but I've never actually had to pronounce it when talking to someone... xD

 

I'm from Atlantic Canada and I also pronounce it "ipple-house" but I have a friend (also from this region) who pronounces it "eye-pull-house" XD I think it's just all in how it looks to you.

Chinese or Korean sculpt names, however, I generally try to pronounce as they are supposed to be pronounced in their respective language.

Personally, I don't think it really matters how people pronounce various sculpt names, as long as the people they're talking to can understand and know what they're talking about.

 

I think it's always interesting when you're only exposed to certain words through reading and then when you finally hear them they're pronounced differently to how you imagined! I was pronouncing iplehouse "eye-pull-house" too but most people at the meet up I went to said ipplehouse. I wonder what it's meant to sound like - not that I could change the way I read it now!

I also noticed that some people pronounce moe (as in the fairyland moe bodies) With one syllable, like the name, rather than the Japanese way with two. I think it sounds cute like that!

 

Iplehouse if it's based on Korean for "leaf" should be more "ipple-house." (I'm Korean-American and spent half my childhood in South Korea, although I'm not entirely fluent in the language.)

 

I've always said "Eye-pull-house", because of how I was taught to "sound words out" in school. Of course, that's in the English language, so doesn't apply to others, but it's just how I first read it and it sticks in my brain like that.

Another is Bobobie. I hear a lot of people say "Bo-bo-bee", but I was told once by a dealer that it's "Bo-bah-bee".

On sculpt names, I don't even know where to start. Yder, Ys, Phny.....

And what about Louis? I own Iplehouse AND IslandDoll Louis boys, and seems most people around here say "Lewis", but I say "Louie". (Probably because of the Directioner in me...I just CAN'T say "Lewis"! >.> ) Though the IslandDoll Louis fullset is French themed, and therefor should be "Louie".

 

If it's Korean companies, I just take a look at how they write their company name.
Iplehouse therefore would be Ee-plehouse,
Aileendoll would be Ey-Lin-Doll
Luts would be Loots
and so on. ^^
I do the same with doll names, if it's possible.

 

Alternately, it occurs to me I can just go to the Korean sites and read the Hangeul, which has got to be more reliable for some of the Korean sculpt names. If it's a Koreanization of a Western language name, then I don't know which one's more correct either. :p

 

I do the same with the company's Japanese or Chinese site (if there is one). I figured it had to be more accurate for a lot of sculpt names.

 

Maybe some people avoid saying "ipple" because it sounds too much like "nipple"!

 

This feels like dejavu seeing a pronunciation thread here on DoA. I think there's one already before? (might've been eaten up in the switch to the new server; who knows)

Here's how I say it :
Iplehouse: EepuL-house (like 'nipple')
Leeke World: Leak-worhld (I get so annoyed when people pronounce it as Leeky World. Like can we not. *Peels off face* )
Luts: Lutz
Unoa: Yu-noa (apparently that's how it's spelt in Japanese and translated too)
Yder: This one's tricky. I'm not too sure but I think its "yai-dur"?
Feeple: Fii-pul

 

Ok I have to admit I'm an iple as in nipple!

 

Iplehouse - eye-pull-house
Feeple - Fee-pull
Taobao- Tah-ow Bah-ow
Yder - yidder
Leekeworld - Leak-world

About - Aboot lol

 

I pronounce most of it wrong, but I don't really care, because I hardly ever say it out loud.
My pronounciation is a combination of English and Dutch.

Iplehouse: eye-pull-house
Leeke World: leeka world (like the Dutch name "Lieke" :p )
Luts: luhts (like "lullaby")
Unoa: uu-no-wa (like "un" in French or "muur" in Dutch)
Yder: ie-der (like "eve")
Aileen Doll: eye-leen doll
Moe: mo
Littlefee: littel fay
Minifee: mee nee fay
Louis: I alternate between Lewis and Louie

For my doll names I do look up the translation or don't use the name at all.
I pronounce doa like doe-wa.

I'm curious to how you spell Soa(h) because I pronounce it like sow-wa (Soa is Dutch for S.T.D, so that name is weird for me anyway).

 

Ipplehouse: イパルハウす [iparu hausu]
Feeple: フィーパリ [feepari]
Luts: ラーツ [raatsu]
Leekeworld: リーキワルド [riiki warudo]
Taobao: タオバオ [taobao]
Yder: ヤイダ [yaida]
Unoa: ユノア [yunoa]

I end up pronounce every foreign word with a strong Japanese accent, which is why I sound like a doof speaking Chinese. ^^;

 

Based on the Hangul, it's a short /i/ sound in Iplehouse And of course if you hear a KOREAN say it, that's exactly what they say...

 

Finally! Someone brought this up!

I've always wondered what I'd do when talking about my dolls if I got one whose company name or sculpt I could not pronounce!

I say "ipplehouse" because that's what it looked like to me the first time I saw it. And Bo-bah-bee? My dolls are mostly Bobobie and Resinsoul and I've never heard that before. Who knew?

 

I usually pronounce things like this:

Iplehouse - Ipplehouse

Unoa - Oo-noah)

Bobobie - Bo bo bee

Luts - Same way as it's spelled.

RS Fei/Mei - Fay/May

Feilien - Fay-lien...Almost like Fay-Alien.