PSA: "guise" is pronounced "guys"

[Borak]

Originally Posted by kjs86z [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have two RL buddies that say "sew" for Spirit of Wolf

Its sow, like the pigs we all are.

It's always been sew for me.

Granted, I've always played a bard, since the beginning.

I imagine that all bards pronounce SoW as 'sew'. After all, people think they're 'sew' fast when they have SoW, but us bards know, they're not sew fast after all. If you choose SoW over Selo's, you reap what you sow.

[TomisFeline]

Originally Posted by Borak [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's always been sew for me.

Granted, I've always played a bard, since the beginning.

I imagine that all bards pronounce SoW as 'sew'. After all, people think they're 'sew' fast when they have SoW, but us bards know, they're not sew fast after all. If you choose SoW over Selo's, you reap what you sow.

best post here so far. you are tapping into that same vein of creativity and ascendance that the guy who does stream of thought posts does, except with less stream of thought and more puns. don't ever change.

whichever way you pronounce it, one can't deny pronouncing it like 'sew' sounds both ugly in phonetics and poor in pattern matching compared to 'sow'.

to make the decision easy, what other noun has the same letters as sow, and how is that word pronounced?

savages

[Psyborg]

Originally Posted by TomisFeline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

to make the decision easy, what other noun has the same letters as sow, and how is that word pronounced?

savages

So by that logic:

to ask for a SoW is pronounced as the sau variant.
to SoW someone is pronounced as the so variant.

[Haloren]

I had some employee of CompUSA back in the day when I was picking up EQ Titanium box set trying to tell me it doesn't get pronounced like 'So-w', instead it should be pronounced like Sau-w.

Its unnatural and it has to be stopped. No no no no no. Fight me. Oh wait, CompUSA stores are no longer a thing, coincidence?!?!?!

[lifewater]

Originally Posted by Haloren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had some employee of CompUSA back in the day when I was picking up EQ Titanium box set trying to tell me it doesn't get pronounced like 'So-w', instead it should be pronounced like Sau-w.

Its unnatural and it has to be stopped. No no no no no. Fight me. Oh wait, CompUSA stores are no longer a thing, coincidence?!?!?!

I still say So-w. Sauw sounds rediculous.

[Fammaden]

Its neither sow nor sew because it isn't a word its an acronym. If you choose to pronounce it like a three letter word there's really no "wrong" way to do it, but really the letters do make the existing word sow like the pig. To be actually correct you should be saying "ess-oh-dubbleyoo" but that takes a lot longer than pronouncing it like a three letter word at which point you might as well just say "spirrituvewulf".

[Psyborg]

Originally Posted by Fammaden [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its neither sow nor sew because it isn't a word its an acronym. If you choose to pronounce it like a three letter word there's really no "wrong" way to do it, but really the letters do make the existing word sow like the pig. To be actually correct you should be saying "ess-oh-dubbleyoo" but that takes a lot longer than pronouncing it like a three letter word at which point you might as well just say "spirrituvewulf".

I'll take exception with this. The most commonly used variant of the heteronym sow is the one meaning to plant seeds, which is pronounced like the word sew (to sew a button). If that wasn't enough, SoW is an acronym as you stated and the letter 'o' is pronounced 'oh' not 'ow' so therefore the most natural way of saying 'S-O-W' aloud and progressing it to a fully verbalized word is to pronounce it like 'sew.'

I won't be outlawyered on this.

[Keza]

Originally Posted by Psyborg [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'll take exception with this. The most commonly used variant of the heteronym sow is the one meaning to plant seeds, which is pronounced like the word sew (to sew a button). If that wasn't enough, SoW is an acronym as you stated and the letter 'o' is pronounced 'oh' not 'ow' so therefore the most natural way of saying 'S-O-W' aloud and progressing it to a fully verbalized word is to pronounce it like 'sew.'

I won't be outlawyered on this.

Common variant is kinda pointless when it comes to correct pronunciation since they don't originate from the same source. It's basically citing a word from a different language as a reason at that point. I would also guess the verb 'sow' is a less common variant, since everyone I've ever heard say it has pronounced it as the noun, though I can't imagine the verb or noun are very common in this day and age. Hell, SoW as in Spirit of Wolf might be more common.

He's correct, it's an acronym with no designed pronunciation so it technically doesn't have one. If we're trying to turn it into a word with old English logic then Spirit of Wolf would be a noun, wouldn't it? You don't say you're Spirit of Wolfing. You say you're casting SoW. Casting is the verb, SoW is just the name, therefor a noun.. I think? So in that case it would be pronounced as a noun, like sow/pig. Unless I'm completely wrong.

In either case I've used the noun version for 20 years and I cannot be stopped. It's simply impossibru.

[Jibartik]

Are you guys saying you want to go to Sea World? Or that you want to see the world?

[Fammaden]

Why does everyone say Tee-oh-Vee instead of pronouncing it like Tauhv!