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

Jan 28, 2007

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    1. This thread is so funny to me. I thought when I joined, that everyone already knew the proper way to say these names, and I always hoped I would figure it out before I ever met one of you guys in person.
       
      #81 deesdolls, Nov 27, 2008
    2. Ducan = I say Duncan, but I try to make myself say duck-an?
      Ipplehouse = eyeplehouse, but I've heard it both ways
      luts = lutz? I dunno how to type it out, just what the majority of people say
      soom = like soon with an m?
      bobobie = all i know is every time I say it sounds like boob. <_<
      crobidoll = cro bee doll
      unoa = u-noah?
       
      #82 Allegra, Nov 27, 2008
    3. I try and pronounce naes according to their country...

      Leekeworld- Lee-keh-world
      Luts- loots
      Bobobie- bo-bo-byeh,

      When I don't know how to pronounce a doll name, I checkt he korean page and see how it's written in Korean..
      For example I checked Luts' Korean site for Lishe, and it's written (you'll need Korean on your computer to see this) &#47532;&#49772;, which I believe woud be pronounced something like 'ri-shwi' or 'li-swi' so I call her 'Li-shi'.
       
      #83 babytarragon, Nov 27, 2008
    4. Iplehouse - Eye-pull-house
      MigiDoll - Mih-gih-doll
      Luts - Luh-tz
      Ducan - Dew-Kan
      SOOM - (like zoom or doom)
      Unoa - Ooh-No-Ah (lol, don't you feel dirty? it's like they're begging you to stop whatever it is you're doing.)
      Bobobi - Boh-boh-bee
      LEEKEWORLD - Like the vegie, Leek, or in the pipes leak.
      Latidoll - Lah-tee-doll
      Crobidoll - Crow-bee-doll

      This thread is hilarious. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing. I'll check Iple, but I can't bring myself to call it "Ipple". Japanese reckons "Ih-pu-ru". So *sigh* it is like Nipple.

      Damn.. Luts just says "LUTS desu..." :/ baaaaarggg. Not helpful.

      Sorry!
       
      #84 Charsier, Nov 27, 2008

    5. I pronounce said companies the same way :)
      I also have a problem with the dolly names :lol:
       
      #85 hardlynormal, Nov 27, 2008
    6. Luts: as in rhyming with nuts
      Leekeworld : Lee-key world
      Ducan: Doo-Kan (though I used to say doo-cun)
      Yder: Ee-der
      El: like the french elle though E. L sounds more masculine
      Soom: rhyming with zoom
      Volks: like the car "volks"
      Cian: ky-ann
      Iplehouse: ipple- house
      unoa: ooh-no-ah
      crobidoll: crob-ee-doll
      migidoll: mig-ee-doll

      I guess a lot of it has to do with where you yourself are from (i'm british) and your dialect (southern england)

      those are my pronounciations anyway hehe
       
      #86 Absynthe, Nov 27, 2008
    7. Strange how many versions we get... yet understandable since English is crazy to begin with. We have words that sound the same and are spelled differently, and words that sound differently and are spelled the same. It is no wonder we have a hard time figuring out how to say new words when we only see them spelled out. *_*

      Here is my rundown...
      Iplehouse - Eye-pull-house
      Luts - Like "nuts" with an "L"... or another word without the "s" which was the first thing that popped into my head seeing the title of the thread. :sweat
      Ducan - Dew-Kin
      SOOM - (like zoom or doom)
      Unoa - Ooh-No-Ah
      Bobobi - My brain inserted an extra b in there for the longest time... I sill find myself saying "Bo-Bobbie"
      LEEKEWORLD - Leaky-world
      Latidoll - Lah-tee-doll
      Crobidoll - Crow-bee-doll
      Iplehouse - Like nipplehouse, but no n
      Lishe - Lee (like the name)-sh
      Bambicrony -Bambi-kraw-knee

      I'm most likely wrong on most of it, but hey, the people I talk to about doll stuff know what I am talking about, so unless the company has an issue, I will continue to say it how I have been. Thankfuly for the most part, we can all just type it and have it get translated in our heads.
       
      #87 Tonboko, Nov 27, 2008
    8. I'm pretty sure it's "Ki-an"...but that's just because there are a whole bunch of irish people that live around here and that's how they say it... :P
       
      #88 Owllight, Nov 27, 2008
    9. Lol lol lol, I just made a recording of me saying the names mentioned here... The funny thing is that I always pronounce them with some kind of Amercian accent, though I'm Swedish and usually speak English with a HEAVY Brittish accent...
      I guess though that my Swedish origin makes me want to pronounce them a little differently... Like Yder and Lishe, I never thought of pronouncing them in ANY other way than the ways I do because they'd sound more like the way I say it if it was said in Swedish: an e at the end of a word is always pronounced etc.

      Here's the recording... :sweat: *hides*
      Hope it works, I've never done anything like this before...

      Edit: Realized I should probably write what I'm actually saying... Here it is, in order:
      Luts
      Iplehouse
      Latidoll
      Migidoll
      Bobobi
      Yder
      Soom
      Cian
      Lishe
      Unoa
      Ducan.

      Yeah.
       
      #89 Wunju, Nov 27, 2008
    10. ^_^() I never really though about it. I always just said "L-uh-ts", like 'Nuts', like other people have said... Then I realized that if I were pronouncing it as a Japanese word, it would be "L-oo-tsu" or something similar... but it's not Japanese company, it's Korean... right? And I know NOTHING about Korean.
       
      #90 Arichan16, Nov 27, 2008
    11. I say "Why-dur" for Yder. XD That's so blatantly wrong.
       
      #91 Yuanfang, Nov 27, 2008
    12. When I first saw Luts I thought it said Sluts. :sweatdrop

      I got tired of pronouncing Bobobie so I gave up and just started saying boobie.

      Here's my list of seriously wrong ways of pronouncing stuff.

      Ducan = Pecan with a D.
      Yder= Wider
      Unoa= Rhiana with a U
      Migidoll= MeggyDoll
      Iplehouse=Triplehouse minus the TR
      Crobidoll=Crowbardoll
      Leekeworld=Leakworld
      Bambicrony=Babbycrombie


      I'm surprised noone has smacked me for mispronouncing everything.
       
      #92 kd_230692, Nov 27, 2008
    13. "Luhtz"? xDD

      And others:

      Homme - hoh-meh
      Ducan - doo-can (as in "canned food" xD)
      Iplehouse - ipple-house
      Unoa - yoo-know-uh
      Bobobie - boh-boh-bee or boh-bah-bee, even if I first read it as "boobie" xDD
       
      #93 Aisu, Nov 27, 2008
    14. I say 'Unoa'

      Like: 'Ouu Know Ah. 'xD
      Well, I don't know how to spell out the pronounciation of 'U' in Japanese, but that's how I say it.

      Are they even Japanese?!
       
      #94 Fictfactional, Nov 27, 2008
    15. Well i often typo it as sluts so the same way you'd pronounce that =3
       
      #95 Adae, Nov 27, 2008
    16. like "Louts"...
       
      #96 capelle, Nov 27, 2008
    17. I love this thread~ I'm sure my pronunciations are horribly off, so I try to avoid saying them out loud, ahah:

      Luts: Nuts with an L
      Yder: Yee-Der
      Lishe: Lish or Leash, I alternate
      Iplehouse: Eyeplehouse. I just can't say nipplehouse :)
      Bobobie: Boh-boh-bee
      Leeke: Leak
      Soom: zoom, with an S
      Latidoll: Lah-Tee doll
      Unoa: You-noah, and I'm sure I've butchered it

      Whoohoo, garbled wooords~!!
       
      #97 Inferi, Nov 27, 2008
    18. Luts - Sluts minus the S
      Iplehouse - Eye-pull-house
      Latidoll - Lah-ti-doll
      Lishe - Leesh (Like what you put your dog on? :lol:)
      Yder - Yee-darh
      Soom - Zoom with an S
      Leekeworld (Leek (Like the vegetable)
      Unoa - Ooh-noa or You-noa, depends on my mood I guess. xDD
      Bobobie - Bob-oh-bee
      Ducan - Doo-can (But I called him Duncan FOREVER until I noticed there was no n. ><)
      Bambicrony - Bambi (like the animated deer) Crow-knee
      Cian - Sea-ann (Like the color cyan?)

      Good to know we all sound nuts when talking about doll companies with eachother. :D​
       
      #98 Catwalk, Nov 27, 2008
    19. This is how I say them~

      Luts- luhtz
      Soom- like zoom with an s
      Iplehouse- ihpulhouse
      Lishe- LEE-shay
      Cian- KEE-an
      Ducan- doo-CAN
      Yder- EE-der
      Unoa- oo-NO-ah
       
      #99 mosaicwolf, Nov 27, 2008
    20. I wasn thinking about how to pronounce Unoa today on the bus.
      @_@ Speak of the devil, I guess.
      I say 'ooh-no-uh', but if you translate the official site on babel fish, it says 'yunoa' so you gotta wonder.
       
      #100 Pelican, Nov 27, 2008
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