Lunching with Sandy today, it occurred to me that I don't know -- is "Grylliade" pronounced "grill-eee-aid," "grill-ee-ahd," or what?
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grill-ee-id.
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No way, Grill-ee-AID.
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grill-ee-ahd
Maybe it's a regional thing?
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GRILL - ee - add.
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Huh! I thought it was GRY-lee-ayd. But then, I pronounce my other alias "Semiapies" (which is never taken for online gaming) as sem-ee-AY-pees.
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Awesome, that's how I do it too. Mo approves.
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See, that's how I mentally pronounced it until I realized that it might not be the correct one. I don't think it's regional, as much as maybe exposure to Continental languages.
In any case, it's close enough to the admin-approved pronunciation that I think I'll use it.
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GRILL-ee-aide
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Grile-ee-ad-ee.
Edit for honesty. In my head grill-ee-aid. I could not find the pronunciation on the internet. I searched for 10-15 minutes and came up empty. I got the definition, no pronunciation though.
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I pronounce it aroellaiyaedeeyess.
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Okee dokee. GRILL - ee - add it is.
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NAM-BLA?
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In the song, Tim Taber pronounces it as Ellie said. Not that it's official or anything; the family of crickets is pronunced "GRILL-id-dee." Make of that what you will. :-)
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I always pronounced it "Chumley."
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Er . . . I mean, it's pronounced "Taggum."
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Yeah, but the family of crickets is spelled differently, too: gryllidae.
"pimpin' ain't easy, especially when you're very bad at it and feel like you should be good at it." -- dhex
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Which is why I suspect they changed the spelling, too. Either they misspelled it first, and pronounced it "GRILL-ee-add" because they misspelled it, or if the singer mispronounced it and they spelled it that way to match his pronunciation I don't know. For that matter, I'm not sure why they chose that family of crickets. Be an interesting question to ask them if I ever see the Lassie Foundation (the new band of the main songwriters) in concert.
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You know, I've always thought Jennifer looked a little like Tennessee Tuxedo!
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that's what i thought, too.
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I pronounce it "WISS-ter-sheer."
Actually, I mentally pronounced it "GRILL-ee-aide" but can easily switch the last syllable to "add," especially if I say it real fast.
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I'm in the GRILL-ee-ahd camp.
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Just as Gloucester is pronounced "Gloster," I pronounce Grylliade "Grilled."
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new-CLEE-er? New-kyuh-lar?
howzabout grill-ee-id? That's how I pronounce it.
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How come no one else rolls the l's ?
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I thought it was Polish, and I pronounced it "Grew we odd ay."
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I pronounce it grĭ – lle – àd - eh.
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Tuh-MAY-toe.
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That's what I said, too! Maybe it's an Ohio thang.
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When I say it out loud, it originally sounded like "GRILL-ee-ade." Now it's lost a syllable, and for the past year or more I've pronounced it as "GRILL-yade."
Some day there will be a Wikipedia article on this regional shift. Timothy's originally from Oregon, so I demand he pronounce it my way as well.
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Song 3 off of this album. It's where I got the name. :-)
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Count me in for "Grill-ee-ahd." Probably because I spent so much time with Latin and Greek; I default to those vowel values, and thus almost never use the phoneme 'add' in a word I don't know.
Similarly, I pronounce half-bee's other handle "seh-mee-ah-pee-es." Since it is Latin, after all.
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Yeah, but I don't think it's valid Latin in the first place. :)
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Actually, I hardly ever (actually, probably never) say the word out loud but when I imagine saying it, it always comes out "grill-yaid".
Since it is a made up word, I shall henceforth follow the convention set by the admins.
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Since this is a thread about pronunciation, I've got a question that's been nagging me since the last time I hung out with Stevo.
Is dhex's name pronounced with a silent "h" ala "dex" or is it pronounced as "de-hex?"
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I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "dex", but I still generally think of him as "d-hex" (but don't tell him that).
I revel in my mispronunciations (that's pronounced my-SPROO-nun-sha-TEE-ons).
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pronounce it as you wish; a long while back a few folks i knew online told me they had initially thought it was a shortened version of my name, hence the nom-de-something or other, "david hexler".
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Just so you all know, "pbirmingham" is pronounced "milord."
"pimpin' ain't easy, especially when you're very bad at it and feel like you should be good at it." -- dhex
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And all along, I'd been pronouncing if "pftt".
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Why wouldn't you just try to aspirate the 'd'? That's what I do.
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