Grimoire

[Balfree]

Ok before I got nuts,

During some ventrilo conversations and podcasts, I've heard some people utter the horrible mispronounciation of the word Grimoire.

It's Grim~war

Not Grimoeer

Yes I'm picky.

[Pillowcase]

Re: Grimoire

Here here!

Grim·Wah is how I pronounce it.

[DakAttack]

Re: Grimoire

Yous froms Joiseys?

[Balfree]

Re: Grimoire

Grim-Wah yea.

Its a french word i believe.

Grimoire would rhyme with Moi ("me" in french)

[Ziero]

Re: Grimoire

Yous froms Joiseys?

yous got a problem wit dat?

[Akashimo]

Re: Grimoire

Grim-Wah yea.
Its a french word i believe.
Grimoire would rhyme with Moi ("me" in french)

Makes me think... Grim-lock, leader of the dinobots.....

[Ziero]

Re: Grimoire

Makes me think... Grim-lock, leader of the dinobots.....

He's a badass >_>

[Dymlos]

Re: Grimoire

I've always been pronouncing it "Grim-o-rey"

[DakAttack]

Re: Grimoire

Grim-Wah yea.

Its a french word i believe.

Grimoire would rhyme with Moi ("me" in french)

Not really, the R would still be pronounced.

[Ellipses]

Re: Grimoire

Ok before I got nuts,

Balfree's got nuts. Or will. At some point in the future.

Pendantic Francophoniness, go!

G - Okay, standard hard G sound like in "goose."
R - If you're going to be French about it, you have to hack this up like you're clearing your throat. In Spanish, you trill the Rs. In French, you growl them.
I - Eeeeee. Just like the vowel i in Japanese Romanization.
M - Standard, red-blooded M sound.
OI - Wa. Rhymes with the A in "father."
R - Again, you have to hack this one up, too. It's not completely silent, especially if it's followed by another vowel sound.
E - Mandatory completely silent letter. No self-respecting French word ends with a letter that's pronounced. The really good ones have five or six.

[Akashimo]

Re: Grimoire

I motion for maybe this as pronouncation..
ゲリモウイレ。。。
ぼくはなにです。。。

[Murphie]

Re: Grimoire

I don't understand how poeple can mispronounce something spelled so obviously. There isn't any other way to pronounce it, if you actually look at the letters (as Ellipses pointed out).

[Feba]

Re: Grimoire

There isn't any other way to pronounce it,

Unless you, you know, never studied French.

Or even realized the word was French.

[Murphie]

Re: Grimoire

Ignorance is never a valid excuse.

[Ziero]

Re: Grimoire

Ignorance is never a valid excuse.

From now on I'm going to pronounce it Grime-or-ey, just for the hell of it