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How do you pronounce "Thanos"?

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Ditch Fahrenheit

Ditch Fahrenheit

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How do you pronounce "Thanos"? (shrug)

 

I know how I've always read it, but I imagine with Guardians of the Galaxy (which I haven't seen yet), we probably have a definitive answer to a question probably very few people even care about.

 

Overhearing people at cons and in shops, I heard the name used a LOT. Especially around the time Avengers was released. Examples I've heard:

 

THAN-oss (rhymes with boss)

THAN-ose (rhymes with dose)

THAY-noss

THAY-nose

THAN-iss

 

Which is correct? Which did you say when you first read the name? :popcorn:

 

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Ares

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I'm in the THAN-oss (rhymes with boss) camp.

As its a derivative of the Greek word for death - thanatos - I would have thought its pronounced the same way.

 

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RockMyAmadeus

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I've pronounced it TH-ANN-OSE (the correct way) forever, but I've heard people say TH-AYY-N-OSE and had no problem with it.

 

If someone pronounced the "OS" as "AWE-SS", I'd correct them.

 

By the way...the "TH" is pronounced hard like "Theater", and not soft like "then".

 

Now, how do you pronounce "Sienkiewicz"...?

 

;)

 

(sin-KEV-itch.)

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Dr. Balls

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Now, how do you pronounce "Sienkiewicz"...?

 

;)

 

(sin-KEV-itch.)

 

Yeah, that was another to say in the comic shop. No one around had ever met the guy, so we all called him "Sinky Wicks" until a few years ago.

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Jeffro.

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Kim Bay-singer

 

Kim Bay-Sing-Ger

 

Kim Ba-Sing-er

 

 

?

 

Bay-sing-er.

 

http://seekcartoon.com/watch/26483-the-simpsons-season-10-episode-5-when-you-dish-upon-a-star.html#.VKrXNMJ0wW4

 

She corrects Homer.

 

 

:applause: I was looking for that clip

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kav

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I know bifrost is pronounced bivROOST in swedish or whatever the hell the language is

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steveinthecity

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Well, it feels good to have gotten this one right. As I've always called him Than-ose, the way the movie pronounced it.

 

Makes up for the fact that I spent much of my early childhood calling Namor the "Sub MARINE-er"

I was in the same camp. It still feels somewhat awkward to prounce the name "correctly". :blush: T'Challa was the other name I had difficulty with. Oh, and "Mr. Mxyzptlk" of course.
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