Pronunciation of Gw related words

it's pronounced ee-jis according to: merriam-webster

I never have the audio turned on so I'm kind of clueless as to the correct pronunciations. For me:

Tyria = Tie - ree -uh

Olias = Oh - lie - us

Well, I speak hebrew so a couple of my friends and I always fail at pronouncing things right...

Sahlahja was Saljala, for example. And for Aataxes I just say A-A-Tex. Ntoukas were never a problem for us, though. We just say... Well, Ntou-Cka. It's pronounceable.
OH! and I used to call the Ferndale "Friend-ale"

How do you say Xunlai? is it Zunali or Ksunlai? and Zhed is Zed or Jed? I always hated english for the unclear spelling...

And is Olias Olee-as or O-li (lion) - As?

And Razah is RAzah or raZAh? or is it raJAh?

Edit:
Wait, Aegis is Aygis? I always said A-Eh-Gis (solid G, not a j)...

Most of the towns have pronounceable second names on them that don't appear anywhere else. We just use those for reference. Township, Bastion, Terrace, Refuge, etc.

I was surprised to hear some of the GW2 trailers and note that I was pronouncing those names correctly!

I pronounce Aegis "Ayjis".

Edit: Ok, the online Merriam-Webster dictionary says "e-jis". :P

Aatxe is the only one that's given me a kind of a "...huh?" moment.

Though I pronounce Olias as "oh-lee-us".

Xunlai I pronounce like "shunlai", since in Chinese 'x' is pronounced similarly to an 'sh' sound in English.

Pretty sure it's with a Z sound.

How about Ybbob? Ibby-bob?
Whuup Buumbuul?
Puugh the Slasher? Pooh the Slasher?

Oh god, Hell's Crispy I would have started calling it that if I heard it!

I'm extremely guilty of mispronunciation. I wear headphones and I've all the OSTs so I'm not missing out on anything by putting other music on and muting the sound, and it was a long time that I took a break from the game before I wasn't as serious.

"Kree-tah" instead of Cry-ta.

Rata Sum (like the math symbol) instead of Soome.

Av-a-turs, with a long a instead of ahv-ah-tars, which I still hate saying.

I'm sure if we went down the entire list I'd be getting red ink all over my butchering .

Note, I am bad at pronunciations but this is how I say these.

Eebob

Whurp Bumbul (sort of a long uh in Whuup)

Pyou (as in Hugh)

Ybbob should be simple enough - Yb-Bob.

Whenever there are two u's in a row I for some reason read them as Oo-oo, which makes Whuup Buumbuul Whoo-oop Boo-oom-Boo-ool. That's not a nice name.

the last one I read as a חחח', I think the english equivalent is Kh. So it's Poo-Ookh the Slasher...

Beetle - ton. Just like every other English town name that's degraded "town" to "ton"/"tun."

Actually an English word. Pronunciation
(Though, I often read it "Chili Beans")

Both English words given their normal pronunciations.

English word. Compound. Faint - Heart-ed - Ness

In my mind, it's always Saj - la - har, which is totally wrong.

There was a thread on this. Turns out it's a Basque word, pronounced Ah - che. Somewhat like a sneeze.

Just like the NPC's say it in the cutscenes. Teer - ee -- uh.
Etymology is probably Norse God Tyr, plus -ia suffix for land/country

My mind transposes the consonants and comes out Na - Coo - Ta, which is wrong. Correct is probably Na - Toooo - Ka.

I do not even try. I don't think it was meant to be pronounced.

O - Lie - Us

Zell - Icks, with an aspirated Z.

I do not even try.

Ra - Za-, with a bit more length on the second A

A - Jis or EE - Jis, both are correct. "G" is like "jet." Link

English compound. Fern (a plant) + Dale (a valley). Furn - day - ul.

Assuming it's Chinese-inspired, that sound doesn't exist in English. Z would be closest. Zoon - lie.

I think this one's spoke in the cutscenes, isn't it? Pretty sure it's Zed. Etymology is probably from Greek "zed," the final letter of the alphabet, still called by that name by some silly British people.

Blame the French. Had the Normans not invaded, the language would be fully phonetic. Also, blaming the French is just a good all-purpose habit regardless of the situation.

I have no idea how to pronounce a double B.

Double U probably indicates that the vowel is held longer than usual. Probably the English "whup bumble" with the u's stretched out.

Guessing Poog with an aspirated G. Though imagining Winnie the Pooh the Slasher is highly amusing.

Also: I'd like some pound cake.

Bless you!!

I thought it was like axe...ee ... lol

I've always said.... SA-LAH-HA-LAH 'cause I just had no idea how to tackle that word!!

The other day I found out that "Scourge", as in Scourge Healing, is pronounced "Skurj".

My mind was blown.

no no no !!!

Remains of Sahlahja = Sha - a - la - la - la -la -la - ja

And Tahnnakai Temple = teriyaki temple!!!

... or thats just me =D

I've always pronounced it that way..
What were you pronouncing it as? o.o

i love this name i always pronounce it Quit-zill-kack like you said, it's quite simple really.

i was surprised too when i found out scourge is pronounced skurj instead of scourge, you know... how any literate person would pronounce it (afaik) scoarge. sometimes i really question the English language.

yeah, scourge is a regular English word, not something Anet made up.......

anyways from being in vent with Anet devs, I've heard a few pronounciations come out of their mouths that somewhat suprised me, mainly on how wrong I was.

Mithrane has a very interesting breakdown of Aatxe, that would be first on my mind. I wonder if Anet peeps know how it's correctly pronounced? I'll try to remember next time I'm on vent with them.

One thing that comes to mind of how Anet pronounces something, is that in Melandru, the second syllable is stressed (I always stressed the first one).

I've always pronounced aatxe:
(sounding the 'a' like in apple) aa-tax, aa-taxes

For Remains of Sahlahja, I've always just called it:
Remains of Shamalamadingdong

I always call it Remains of Saliva.... because people comming in there are covered in Wurm dribble.

I'm guessing DZ-AG-UH-NOOR and bastion with it's normal pronunciation.