I've always thought it was BOW(like the weapon)krug, but I suspect it might really be BOK-rug. Also, does anyone else have some word in Pathfinder they aren't sure how to pronounce? I know there's usually a pronunciation guide but not always.
I think it's Bo-krug, because Bok-rug sounds dumb to me.
I'm in the BO - krug (rhymes with 'foe' , rhymes with 'rug') group as well.
I would pronuce it as BOCK(like dock)-ROOG, but English is not my first language, so I pronunce a lot of thins in a weird way.
If you pronounce it really slowly, it sounds a bit like 'oranges'.
Always good to have another word that rhymes with "oranges"
He was invented by H.P Lovecraft, yes? Did he ever write how to pronounce it?
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He was invented by H.P Lovecraft, yes? Did he ever write how to pronounce it?
Probably with a third mouth.
I've always pronounced it BOCK-rug (rhymes with DOCK-lug). I've also found this list of people pronouncing Bokrug different ways.
If you pronounce it really slowly, it sounds a bit like 'oranges'.
You say this on every thread about pronunciation. Is this some kind of meme everyone but me knows?
The joke is that nothing rhymes with oranges
When I first heard the joke it was specifically that "gullible" sounds like "oranges," but only if you said it slowly. When the person hearing the joke starts slowly saying gullible it sounds silly and suggests that they are gullible.
Can James Jacobs chime in? Also, should I start a thread about Pathfinder words that are hard to pronounce?
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James Jacobs can chime in, sure.
I've always pronounced it BOE-kruhg. For what it's worth, that's also the pronunciation listed in Call of Cthulhu.
That said, in a letter he wrote in 1934, Lovecraft wrote this about Cthulhu...
The name of the hellish entity was invented by beings whose vocal organs were not like man's, hence it has no relation to the human speech equipment. The syllables were determined by a physiological equipment wholly unlike ours, hence could never be uttered perfectly by human throats ... The actual sound -- as nearly as any human organs could imitate it or human letters record it -- may be taken as something like Khlûl'-hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, hence the h represents the guttural thickness.
Obviously, Bokrug is spelled in a much more pronounceable way than Cthulhu, but the point remains that Lovecraft sought to name his monsters using languages that humans can't speak, so the actual way to pronounce it is, if like me, you're using a human throat to do so, never going to be "correct."
AKA: Use the version of the pronouncing that you like best.
BOE-kruhg works for me.