How do you pronounce "Leeke" and other company/sculpt names?

I say 'loots' with the long u sound... it's how it would be pronounced in japanese but I don't know if it's the same in korean

 

aahaha.. what a cool thread xD

luts in korean is 루 - roo/loo (oo as in e.g. book, cool) 츠 - che, so I'm thinking loots is the more correct one out of the two (guts or loots, which would you want? lol). I keep pronouncing it as lutz though around english-speakers because i used to do figure skating and we practised flip jumps, loop jumps, Lutz jumps, cherries.. etc xD
Iplehouse is 이플하우스, which is closer to ipplehouse than eyeplehouse. Eeplehouse?
Soom is 숨, with the oo pronounced quickly like in book and foot
Leekeworld - 리키월드 - sounds very much like 'leaky-world' xDD
Minifee - 미니폐 - korean doesn't have the f phonetic so it sounds like minipye (e as in pet) so.. i dunno how this would translate xD it's funny, cuz Feeple is spelled 피플, which is indistinguishable from 'people'. ^^
Narin is 나린 na- rin and narae is 나래 na - re (e as in red) so perhaps na-ray
Unoa is ユノア in katakana - yunoa - so you-no-aa

for sculpt names:
Ducan is 듀칸 - dyoo-can (a as in car without r and not as long) english-speakers tend to say dyookin.
Lishe is a bit weird - 리쉬 -is ri-shwee so.. leash?
Cian is 키안 - kee-an.. i've never heard this pronunciation of cian before so maybe the company saw the name somewhere and thought it was that? I have a friend called Ciano and we call him Sharno =/
Yder is 이더 ee-der or yee-der
Ys 이스 sounds like iss or yiss.
oh.. and I've heard Milch pronounced with ch like chop and i get a little annoyed.. Milch is German for milk so it would be a German ch at the back of your throat (unless it's also a word in a different language. hmm xD). The korean name uses a 'h' sound to denote the ch.

and i can't remember any more.. there were lots of weird names though xDD

i must say that really, it doesn't really matter how we say them as long as we can be understood.. right? ^^;;

sorry for the long list.. anyone who's read this far gets a hug, a cookie and a bemused look from me.

 

i'm italian and i tend to just read it as it was my own language ^^''
so luts like loots and iplehouse like ipple but without a p (don't know how to explain this XD)
edit-maybe more like eeplehouse
lati as lah-tee
for bobobie i tend to say bobobye

actually in korean 'u' and 'oo' are read the same (i know cause my favourite korean singer surname is moon)

unoa and migidoll i think are japanese, i pronouce them like japanese (wich isn't too far from italian)
but i don't know how to explain it

minifee - minifeh
feeple - like people but starting with an f
narae - nah-rah-eh
crobi ... i will made up a japanese sound to explain this: kurobi
(for me its easier to use japanese sound istead of english)
yder - ee-deh-r (you probably don't know how we pronounce the r XD but that's hard to write)
leeke - leh-eh-keh
for HZ i just pronounce the letters in my language XD
i think your supposed to read it as the full name but since i can't read character

 

I just went to my first ever meet last weekend and discovered something interesting. Since I have only read and never heard pronounced ALL doll names, companies, etc, I found I was pronouncing names differently from some people.
Like Luts Is it pronounced like it rhymes with "huts" or "Flutes".
How about Lishe? Does it rhyme with "fish", "leash", or, after looking at the names of some other Luts dolls, is it pronounced like "Lie-she" or "Lee-she"?
Is there a pronunciation guide somewhere?

 

Personally I pronounce Leeke as "leek" (Miku anyone?) but I have heard it pronounced as Leeke (lee-kay) etc.

 

Well, the katakana version of Leeke is "rike" (lee-kay) from the Japanese Leeke site. LUTS, however, always uses roman characters, so it's harder to tell . . . although poking around on the Japanese LUTS site I found out that it's an acronym for Loyalty, Utility, Trust, Service. You learn something new every day ^_^.

 

There is already an entire thread dedicated to this here: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=258578

 

A woman in my region who has Korean says loooots is correct.

Ann in CT

 

Allright, here are mine. XD I had phonetics at university, but of course I can't get the special characters here... :S

Luts- Loots, only with a shorter 'oo' sound. As in books.
Iplehouse- Eeplehouse. Like nipple without N. ^^
Soom- Like suum
Cian- see-an
Lishe- Lee-she
Bobobie- bo-bo-bee
Crobidoll- croh-bi (short vowel pronunciation)-doll
Yder- Aider, with a deep A.
Unoa- YUU-no-a (short a in the end)
Migidoll- Mi (short vowel)-dji-doll
Homme- omme. As in french. More like a really deep O. Ooohmm.
Ducan- Duy-CAHN. I would also pronounce this as in French, with a y in the u-sound
Leekeworld- lee-kee-world. Leaky world? Ha.
Latidoll- lah-tee-doll
Feeple- fee-pel. As people.
Petsha- Pet (e as in nEver) - shah
Twingkey- twing-kee
Puki- poo-kih (eeww. that sounds nasty.)
Bambicrony-Like bambi and crony put together (DUH XD) BAM-be-CRO-ny
Soah- Sou-a
Sooah- Suu-a
Beryl - BE-ryhl (pronounced just like in English)
Volks - Folks (German)
Narin- naa-rihn
Narae- na-ra-eh

 

How ironic that I find this after my friend and I were having a discussion over Bobobie! Well here goes!

Luts-Loots ie:pirate loots :P
Iplehouse- Eyeplehouse
Soom-Suum ie: Uber? It's pronounced with a long 'oo'
Lishe-Leash :B
Bobobie-Bo-Bobbie :P
Crobidoll- Crow-be :B
Leekeworld- Leak-world
Feeple- people with an F :B
Puki-poo-key
Beryl- I always think of Queen Beryl from Sailor Moon...so that's how I say it :B
Volks- like Volkswagon
Narae-Na-ray

 

Dang, this thread has opened my eyes... ears, on how to pronounce most companies. I got at least 95% of them wrong apparently XD

 

Oooh... Very useful!!! Thank you!! =)

 

I recently went to my first doll meet and noticed some differences in the way things are pronounced between the people there

i pronounce Luts, as its been said above to ryme with huts.
the Fee in so many of the fairyland dolls i pronounce like the fee's you give to paypal
I pronounce Lishe to rhyme with fishy
soom rymes with zoom
i once pronounced migidoll las Miji-doll but have changed to Mi-GEE-doll (with a g as in geezer)
my Ninodoll mini anna i pronounce (AH-nah) because i have several friends who pronounce it that way
when dealing with soah and sooah i tend to pronounce them relatively the same, drawing out the o in sooah longer. but it really sounds the same.

 

I say "luts" like nuts, buts, ruts, etc. XD and I say iplehouse like ... idk... like it would rhyme with cripple house I guess XD Sorry that sounds so bad!!! D:

 

I used to question whether or not I was pronouncing the company names and different molds right. But after I took a semester in elementary Korean, I can look up the Korean names on the Korean websites and say them right. I really enjoyed that class and I'm glad it's helping me continue to learn in this hobby. :]

 

When I was at the DragonCon panel, someone was talking to me about their doll and I totally heard her pronounce Iplehouse as "Apple-house"!

Also, I can't seem to pronounce Bobobie right. I keep leaving off the last "b" because it just sounds so weird to me, and I end up wanting to call it "Bobobo" or "Boobah" or something stupid like that.

 

The correct way to pronounce yder is ee-dur

i pronounce Luts as loots

here are the list of the dolls i have/waiting and how i pronounce their name

Lati Yellow Byurl - just....byurl.....bee-url but say it fast! mean "star" in Korean
Lati Yellow Lumi - Loo-mee
DIM Happy Jullis - Joo-lis
Littlefee Bisou - Bee-soul (i think im wrong on this one haha)
Littlfee Ante - An-teh (i will probably wrong for this one too xD)
CH Ange Ai Uri - Yoo-ri
CH Ange Ai Gaby - Ga-bee

lol

 

I has one. . . How would you say Ys?
I say it like "eyes", for no reason whatsoever. Lol.
My friend was like, I say it "Y-S" as in, just saying the letters.
Which is obviously wrong, as it is a name. XD

So would it be like saying it with an 'e' or a 'u', or what? o Ao

 

LOL I've had people correct me from time to time as well. Although I really have no idea how to say what.

Soom-doom-soom
Luts-nuts-luts
iplehouse-eye-pple(as in apple) iplehouse
Yder-yayder-yder XD
Leekeworld-leek world-leekeworld
sabik-sah bick-sabik
meh~ I think of any others right now. @o@;

 

Your explanations are hilarious. But exactly how I pronounce them. Also:
Yder = EE-der, sometimes YEE-der
Lishe = leash
Ys = EE-s
Feeple = people, with an f
Crobidoll = CROW-bee doll
Sabik = Sah-BEEK
Narae = Nah-RAH-ay
Ducan = Doo-KAN
That's just my way of saying 'em...I'm sure I've got mistakes.
Hmm...what else....