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BJD pronunciations!

Apr 15, 2014

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    1. I usually say:

      Luts = Lutz

      Iplehouse = ip - L - house

      Unoa = you - no - aa

      Leeke world = leak world

      Feeple = F - ee - pull

      Minifee = mini - fee
       
      #21 StarOblivion, Apr 16, 2014
    2. May as well toss in my own two cents on this one...

      Iplehouse = ipp-el-haus
      Leekeworld = leek-ee-world (I think because I tend to read it as "Leek-Eworld," rather than "Leeke-World")
      Feeple/MiniFee/LittleFee: fay-pull, mini-fay, little-fay
      Bobobie: Boh-boh-bee
      Unoa: I go back and forth between oo-no-ah and yoo-no-ah on this one
      Lishe: again, I go back and forth, between "lish" and "lee-shay"
      Feilian: fay-lee-ahn
      moe: moh-ay
      Luts: luhts
      Yder/Ys: ee-der/ees

      It's interesting to see how others pronounce the different names... of course, most of the time when I deal with them, it's in text format anyway, so pronunciation doesn't matter as much, which is nice!
       
      #22 vicemage, Apr 16, 2014
    3. I always pronounce 'Iplehouse' closer to 'eye-pull' than 'ipple' (but... not quite that, either), and I have a hard time switching because of the single 'p' even though I know I'm not supposed to be going by English rules.

      And-- worse for me, because I took four years of French!-- I say 'fee' instead of 'fay'. I absolutely KNOW it's wrong and what the word is and why and I can't ever seem to stop myself!

      (I always pronounce Yder like 'eider' in my head and have never had any idea how close or far from correct I am with that one)
       
      #23 Anneko, Apr 17, 2014
    4. Always pronounced it "ipplehouse." Glad to see I was correct!
       
      #24 Purple Lady, Apr 17, 2014
    5. Oh good I'm not the only one who says "ee-dehr" xD
      I'm one of the eye-pull people, too.
       
      #25 vamperious, Apr 17, 2014
    6. That sounds like a job in the Mafia. XD
       
      #26 Arashi Uchiha, Apr 17, 2014
    7. I tend to vacillate between eye-pull (Mafia job?) and ipple... And yes, make all the nipplehouse jokes!
      Just thinking, it would be cool if Ys was pronounced like "Weiss." Although most of the time I read it as "Yis."
       
      #27 Deux Silences, Apr 17, 2014
    8. I've been reading this for a couple days now so thought I should put my input in XD I will probably come back and edit this to add more later but...

      I says Iplehouse like eye-pull house....
      I say Yder like yay-dur
      I say Ys like Yis
      I say Leekeworld like leak world
      I say Minifee/Feeple/etc. like Mini fee and fee pull etc.
      I say Bobobie like bo-bo-bee
      I say Lishe like leash
      I say Moe like the name
       
      #28 The Raven, Apr 17, 2014
    9. Me and my friend (both from the UK) say 'eye-pull-house' I've never heard it pronounced 'ipplehouse'.
      My pronunciation trouble is with the Doll love Evol- is it ee-vol or e-vol?
      So confusing! ;P
       
      #29 senbonzakura1000, Apr 18, 2014
    10. Oh lord I wonder about this all the time. I'm always hesitant to talk about company names in public because I think 'someone's gonna get me on these pronunciations hnnngh'

      I'm also someone who pronounced Iplehouse as eye-pull-house, but one of the ones that got me recently was Dollshe. I'd just figured that the 'e' was silent, but when I was hauling my saint around at a convention one day a girl came up to me and asked if he was a Doll-she, and I thought '... Whelp, I feel dumb.' :sweat
       
      #30 Cat Grenade, Apr 18, 2014
    11. XD I say Eye-pull just to avoid saying Ipple because of that. XD If i said Ipplehouse doll around here... They will misshear it as Nipplehouse.. :sweat [​IMG]
       
      #31 SovereignKaos, Apr 18, 2014
    12. #32 Cynthia in FlintHills, Apr 18, 2014
    13. LUTS is actual "loot -s"
       
      #33 javasoy, Apr 20, 2014
    14. How does everyone pronounce 'Homme', like Duncan 'Homme' from D.O.D?

      I was debating it with a friend, do you say it as 'Hom-may' or 'Home'? Or even something different. :)
       
      #34 Seekerbeliever, Apr 24, 2014
    15. Seekerbeliever I usually pronounce Homme as "Ohm", only because I worked in fragrance for a long while and Homme means "man" in French, and that's how it's pronounced...XD
       
      #35 Miyukisetsu, Apr 24, 2014
    16. Miyukisetsu That's interesting actually and sounds better than what myself and my friend thought it was pronounced. Think I will pronounce it that way now, thanks. :)
       
      #36 Seekerbeliever, Apr 24, 2014
    17. Seekerbeliever Glad to help! Before I worked in fragrance...I used to say "home" haha so it's totally understandable since it looks like it'd be pronounced that way or "hom-may" :D
       
      #37 Miyukisetsu, Apr 24, 2014
    18. I'd say the Homme like...uh...how do I write that down in English.
      'o-mmm, the e is silent, and as far as I know the h actually too. I'm using the French way of saying it though :'D
      You can listen to a French man saying "un homme" here.
      (Edit: whoops, you guys were quicker)

      Yder is I-dur, in German it would be Ei-der.
      Iplehouse is Eye-Pull-House.
      Leeke is Leek-e.

      I have German and English ways of saying them, like Luts or Dollshe, and they sound very different from each other.
      Dollshe is Doll-she in English, with a long "she" like the pronoun, in German it's a short "sche" sound.
      I also have changed my ways depending on which way is used in my group the most, we had the discussion already several times and sometimes I didn't really get what someone wanted from me till I realized they were talking about company X.
       
      #38 Ara, Apr 24, 2014
    19. Iplehouse has always been ipplehouse to me, so its nice to know that was right according to Korean pronunciation, but I can't make myself say 'you-noa' for Unoa. It's always oo-noa to me although for a while it was 'ih-noa' because u in Welsh is an /i/ sound. If you have a few languages rattling around in your head it can be hard to settle on the right sound.
       
      #39 Jescissa, Apr 24, 2014
    20. What a great thread!

      I too, have always pronounced Iplehouse as "eye-pull" house and Leekeworld as "leak world".
      Bobobie, always trips me up. It just looks like "boobie" to me.
       
      #40 Arekushia, Apr 24, 2014
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