Proper pronunciation of "Amenopheus?"

[Millefune]

I have been using "ah-meh-nuh-fes." I've heard ay-men-OH-fee-us, ah-mih-noh-fee-oos, ah-men-off-yoos, and all sorts of other ways...

[Preston Hudson]

I have been using the first one myself.

[RAdeMorris]

I use /AH mino FEE us/.

I also play with Google Translate from time to time with some Pathfinder names.

[John Woodford]

I pronounce it "Throatwarbler mangrove."

[zefig]

"HEY OLD GUY."

[Lamontius]

who

[BigNorseWolf]

Demoted.

[John Compton]

The common pronunciation I've heard (and also use) is "ah men oh FEE us," though "ah men of FEY us" is also about right; to me, the name should have its penultimate syllable stressed.

[Lamontius]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Demoted.

I am already Sheila Heidmarch's biscuit retriever :(

[Pontificor the Great]

Lamontius wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Demoted.

I am already Sheila Heidmarch's biscuit retriever :(

Yeah that fatty would not share her biscuit when I un-dilemmaed her cypher mages!

[Abyssian]

I like ah-main-oh-FEY-oos. It sounds pretentious. It sounds...Amenopheus.

[Sior]

AH-men-OFF-ee-us. Pronouncing each syllable with multiple emphases makes it seem more foreign to me. *shrug*

[Matthew Morris]

I pronounce it like Johnathan does in "The Mummy" also as a result of that my half orc calls him "Purple Stork Man"

Ay-men-OH-fiss

[Jiggy]

Matthew Morris wrote:

I pronounce it like Johnathan does in "The Mummy"...

Ay-men-OH-fiss

I was about to chime in with the Mummy reference, as that's how I pronounce it too.

However, what you wrote isn't how I remember them pronouncing it in that movie. I thought they pronounced it "ah-MEN-o-fis"...?

[Matthew Morris]

Jiggy wrote:

Matthew Morris wrote:

I pronounce it like Johnathan does in "The Mummy"...

Ay-men-OH-fiss

I was about to chime in with the Mummy reference, as that's how I pronounce it too.

However, what you wrote isn't how I remember them pronouncing it in that movie. I thought they pronounced it "ah-MEN-o-fis"...?

An excuse to watch the Mummy and drool over Patricia Vasquez and Rachel Weiz again? How can I resist?

[RocMeAsmodeus]

Abyssian wrote:

I like ah-main-oh-FEY-oos. It sounds pretentious. It sounds...Amenopheus.

I say it the same way because it rhymes with Ah-ma-DEY-oos, and surely loads of women in Sothis are saying, "Come on and rock me Ah-main-oh-FEY-oos."

[The Fourth Horseman]

I pretty much go with the Mummy pronunciation, even though I know it's probably not right.

[Calybos1]

Wiki says that the Egyptian language almost always put stress on the last or next-to-last syllable, which would make it

Ah-MEEN-oh-FEE-us

But of course, "Amenopheus" looks more like a Greek name, in which case the more likely pronunciation would be

AH-men-OH-fee-us

<headscratch>

[Rebis Ouroboros]

I've always gone with Egyptian naming conventions when pronouncing his name. "Amen-OAF-ee-us."
Repeated viewingsOf course, since no one has ever heard spoken Egyptian, I've had to steal my pronunciation from repeated viewings of The Mummy.

But that's what I go with, and I completely commit to it. My confidence in that pronunciation has even gotten GM's to change the way they pronounce it.

[Jukka Särkijärvi]

/ameno'fe:us/

[Cindrana Longroad]

Pontificor the Great wrote:

Lamontius wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Demoted.

I am already Sheila Heidmarch's biscuit retriever :(

Yeah that fatty would not share her biscuit when I un-dilemmaed her cypher mages!

Next time bring a step ladder to the table shorty : D

[Lamontius]

DREN-DEL-DRANG
DRINDAL-DRONG
DRANDEL-DURNG
DURN-DUL-DRENG

[Hrothdane]

Lamontius wrote:

DREN-DEL-DRANG

DRINDAL-DRONG
DRANDEL-DURNG
DURN-DUL-DRENG

Little did you know, the many permutations of his name are a calculated move to keep his enemies on their toes and prevent true name magic.

...or so his old Molthuni buddy Sturm told me.

[Lamontius]

SWIM THROUGH THE DOOR, HROTHDANE