Mispronounced Names in the Pokemon World That Annoy You

[GhostFingers]

I was pretty miffed with Mismagius' official pronunciation. 'Miss-maj-ee-us' just flowed off the tongue so much better to me and it felt like it made more sense. Mismagius has a clear witch/mage inspiration (thusly, a magic motif) and saying the name with a hard 'g' just felt all kinds of wrong.

In Pokepark Wii (the first one) Mismagius pronounces its own name with a soft G (a J sound)

 

[Stormfront12]

Sceptile is mispronounced "Skep-tile" when it is actually called "Sep-tile".

 

[progressforth]

Sceptile the Skeptic! *Puts on reading glasses and leafblades your theories.*

 

[PaulTheProtist]

"Wartortoise" for Wartortle (and occasionally Blastoise). That's another one I just don't understand.

 

[TeaWest]

I used to call Psyduck piss-y duck because I was dumb Arceus is definitely a common one too

 

[Stormfront12]

"Wartortoise" for Wartortle (and occasionally Blastoise). That's another one I just don't understand.

I used to call Wartortle "Warturtle" because it just made sense.

 

[Misabel]

I have an aunt who consistently says "Poh-kee-man." Makes my ears feel like they might start bleeding every time!

YES. I hate that too! First of all "po-kee" reminds me of the Hokey-Pokey and secondly where did "man" come from? They are clearly not human!hdear:

 

[progressforth]

I have an aunt who consistently says "Poh-kee-man." Makes my ears feel like they might start bleeding every time!

YES. I hate that too! First of all "po-kee" reminds me of the Hokey-Pokey and secondly where did "man" come from? They are clearly not human!hdear:

My grandmother calls them Poh-Kuh-Mans. Sometimes she says mon, but not often.

 

[kyoumami]

a friend of mine from school argued with me that the "izard" charizard was pronounced like 'lizard'. so like... char-IZZERD as opposed to "CHAR-i-ZARD"? i don't know, it was very annoying considering she only ever watched the anime as a little kid and still thought i was wrong!

 

[Alolan Ninetales]

Young Winter Rain pronunciations of Pokemon:

Skarmory- Scar-more-ee
Corsola- Core-soul-uh
Suicune- Soo-uh-scene (I have no idea how)
Kyogre- Kai-gore (No idea)
Groudon- Groo-don

More recent mispronunciations:

Meinshao- Main-shao (Like Chow Mein, though people have argued that it's me-in-shao...I like my pronunciation better)
Garbador- Gar-ba-door( Not Gar-bo-dor)


But yeah, I'm not ashamed of my mispronunciation of Meinshao.

 

[herb]

Arceus is pronounced with a k instead of an s? I still prefer the wrong version, it flows a lot better.

 

[Otter Mii-kun]

There really aren't any notable Pokémon mispronunciations that annoy me. However, I'm actually more likely to mispronounce many Pokémon names myself. In my earliest days of playing Pokémon, I mispronounced certain Pokémon names repeatedly. Among them were:
Pidgeotto - "Pidgetto", as in "Gepetto"
Pidgeot - "Pidgit"
Psyduck - "Pisyduck" (no kidding!)
Machop - "Maychop"
Alakazam - "Alkazam" (as in Alka-Seltzer)
Rattata - "Ratta"
Raticate - "Ratice"
Ekans - "E-cans"

 

[xXMelanie_HimeXx]

I have a dutch accent so the way I pronounce a lot of Pokemon names sounds weird >.>

 

[LouThunders]

It's a personal thing, but I pronounce 'Bouffalant' as if it's a French word rather than how it's supposed to be pronounced.

 

[Ryu Taylor]

This might not count, but I'm fond of saying Diancie as "Dai-ahn-see", like how the dub has it.

 

[Idon'tcare]

"Rye-koo" always bothered me, because I've constatly heard people say it like this, when it should be "Rye-koh".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRM0-FT0tUA

The Pokerap with all the pokemon is pretty funny and listening to that. I find laughing over some of the names I have been saying wrong for years.

That's a fan-made Pokérap and you should be laughing at it as it's filled with mispronounced Pokémon names.

 

[Almonds]

Arceus is pronounced with a k instead of an s? I still prefer the wrong version, it flows a lot better.

Arceus is pronounced with an s in the Japanese version. It isn't wrong...

 

[PaulTheProtist]

To this day, I'm unsure whether it's pronounced Ki-O-Gray, Kee-O-Gray, Ki-O-Gur, Kee-O-Gur, or what. I prefer the second pronunciation myself though.

 

[Paleo]

I recently realised that it's pronounced TYnamo, not TyNAmo

 

[~Smugleaf~]

Sceptile is mispronounced "Skep-tile" when it is actually called "Sep-tile".

TIL: I’ve been pronouncing Sceptile wrong this whole time. I have always pronounced it as Skeptile.
Anyway there aren’t really any mispronounced names that annoy me, but here a few I have pronounced wrong over the years.

Virizion – Vai-rai-zon
Cobalion – Cobah-LION (like the animal)
Terrakion – Te-rah-KEE-on
Kyogre – KAI-oh-gree
Kyurem – Kai-YOU-rem
Suicune – Sue-coon
Vivillon – I pronounce it how it’s spelt, even though the L’s are silent.
Ekans – Ee-kans
Reshiram – Ree-SHY-ram
Groudon – GROO-don
Umbreon – Umber-ron
Vaporeon - Vay-PREE-on – For some reason I didn’t see the ‘o’. I was really stupid.