There's a few pronunciations in Pathfinder that I'm not sure of, but wouldn't you know it as I write this, only one comes to mind.
Cheliax.
"Shell-ay" Like Shelly but with an 'ay' sound. The 'iax' makes be think of a French where sometimes 'ch' is pronounced as an 'sh' and an 'iax' can sometimes be pronounced as an 'ay'.
"Kelly-axe" Using the 'Ch' as a 'K', 'Cheli' becomes 'Kelly' and 'ax' is self explanatory.
"Shelly-axe" Same as before, but the 'ch' is used a 'sh'.
"Chelly-axe" The 'ch' is pronounced like 'ch' in 'chill'.
Personally I've been calling it 'Shellay', but that's only because 'Chelly-axe' is an abyssmally poor name IMO, but everyone agrees that's how it's pronounced (at least in my neck of the woods).
Any help is appreciated and if you aren't sure of a pronunciation post it here and we'll do what we can to help you.
We been using this one: "Chelly-axe" The 'ch' is pronounced like 'ch' in 'chill'.
I say Cheel-ee-axe. Three distinct syllables.
I always assumed it was Cheely-axe. But I also pronounce Chelaxian as Chell-axe-ee-in. So I dunno.
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The worst pronunciation wise so far is all the pseudo-Chinese from Tianxia.
Purchase the PDF for the old 3.5e Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting book. Appendix B (pg. 246 and 247) is a pronunciation guide for a lot of the proper names in Golarion from AH-bah-dar to ZIE-fess.
I was a little sad that they didn't carry that appendix over into the new Inner Sea World Guide because it was really useful.
The old Pathfinder campaign setting material from the 3.5e days has a pronunciation guide, if you care to track it down.
These are from memory, and the aforementioned pronunciation guide has a better spelling system, but hopefully this helps:
Cheliax is CHELL-ee-aks
Chelaxian is chell-AKS-ee-uhn
Chelish is CHELL-ish
Edit: Ninja'd. And yeah, I, too, was disappointed ISWG didn't have it. They coulda made it a web enhancement! Ah, well.
Note, most of those pronunciations are in the ennie award winning Pathfinder wiki
I guess a new pronunciation guide with dictionary-style phonetics would be acceptable under the the Community Use Policy.
hmm...
I humbly suggest you get on that, fizzboy.
I always pronounced it as CHI-liax.
Isn't that what the Fresh Prince does?
And yes, I'm already planning on a new guide using Wikipedia-style pronunciation spelling. If I can get the formatting in Google Docs to cooperate, I'll use that otherwise it'll be in something like Pages and then exported to PDF. I can get started on Saturday at the earliest.
Chill Axe?
That sounds like some kind of crappy perfume.
IPA would make more sense in my opinion, but that’s not me that would do it…
IPA: [ˈtʃɛliæks]
Respell: CHEL-ee-aksI get what you mean about IPA but it can be a bit unapproachable or awkward for some plus it can differ depending on dialect.
Tian Xia literally means 'under heaven' and is the accepted Hanyu Pinyin spelling for rendering Mandarin Chinese. There are several pronunciation guides available, and they seem to be relatively consistent in taking words straight from the Chinese. Tian Xia, for instance, is pronounced something like "Tyen Shya" (near rhymes with Ten and Bah, as in "bah humbug").