how do you pronounce aatxe?

Hi guys, I have a quick question. How exactly do you pronounce aatxe? I thought it was A-TAX but someone said thats wrong. Also I used several text-to-speech programs and they sound all different. Thanks!

Aa-chee / Ah-chee.

If http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Talk:...#Pronunciation is to be believed. (Have no reason to doubt it, imo o_O)

Though yeah, I say At-axe too. It's just more understandable that way IMO.

Yeah pretty much. I did some research a while ago into the background of it and I came up with more like "Aat-chay". But pretty much sounding the same anyway

Dunno in english but in spanish is the same , aa che.

Yeah, there were a couple threads on this a few years ago. I too used to think it was "A-tax" (which kinda sounds like "Attacks"). Of course, even though I now know the correct Basque pronunciation, I still think of it in my head as A-tax. Pretty much nobody I know on Vent pronounces it incorrectly anyway, so if I did say it correctly (aa-che), nobody would know what I was talking about anyway.

atch.

not quite sure where people get the extra 'a' from... aatxe -> attaxe ??

lol i say Attacks

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i say aat-xe
like that, not aat-a-xe but aat-xe

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That post is slightly misleading. Most english-speakers would pronounce it aat-chee given that guide. It should be pronounced aat-chay.

(Or at least, that's the best you can expect from someone who hasn't extensively studied Basque or Spanish.)

For me, coming from scandinavia, i say "aatks" without the -e at the end.

Whether or not it is the correct way may be another matter.

Ok... from what I can gather from various attempts to spell a pronunciation.

Aatxe -> ætʃeɪ (English IPA)

I think. The most intuitive way I can think of writing that in something that could easily be read would be "atché". I debate the "t", but meh.

I say ataxe, never heard anyone actually say aahche or whatever on vent.

A mate told me it was from greek mythology and pronounced axe,turned out to be a load of crap and I hit him.

On research it is indeed atche.

That's what the TTS site was for. Why write out what you can hear?

I typically say "aks-ee". I can't stand the attacksey pronunciation, cause the friggin' second "a" isn't after the "t" people . As I understand it, it's the "atch-ee" or "atch-ay" as stated.

same... aks-ee

I say cow. :P It's easy to pronouce.

A-TAX myself here

The others just sound wrong, not manly enough

Archie (atchee, atchay with indian accent ) and Jughead?
Achee (the feminine sneeze from achoo?)