Gaming/random names you used to pronounce incorrectly.

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theprof00 on 01 July 2013

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Yeah ryu is somewhat pronounced "dyou" due to the r sound coming from the tongue rolling off the teeth, where the english d sound comes from

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miz1q2w3e on 01 July 2013

I used to think it was spelled Pikatu, but pronounced with a chu because of the American accent. Like 'century'.

This was when Pokemon first came out. Everyone was talking about it, but I hadn't gotten the game yet.

Non-gaming one, I used to think Ke$ha was pronounced 'Keesha'. I found out about her music after I moved here to Jordan, so I never actually heard anyone say her name until like a year later on TV.

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wfz on 01 July 2013

Mr Khan said:
From Metroid, planet Zebes.

Thought it was: Zeebs
Turns out: Zeh-base

What.. the f... ? WHAT?!

My friend always used to say "may-rio" instead of "Mah-rio".

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TruckOSaurus said:
As a French-Canadian, I grew up pronouncing the Bros from Super Mario Bros as "Bross" instead of "Bro-z" and to this day that's still how I say it in conversations.

For VGC specific names, I pronounce ioi: eye-oh-ee for some reason and I used to read badgenome as Badge-nome but I corrected myself now and read it bad-genome.

I still say it as Badge-nome in my head. That's just how the universe works.

OT: I surprisingly said most everything correctly. Compared to your guys' younger selves I was pretty great at pronunciation. (Other than some Pokemon names, but come on. Those got crazy sometimes.)