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I always thought that CHIM was pronounced as kime (like time with a k), but I've also heard it pronounced... Well, this is an obvious exaggeration, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lyKxKn_WsE Which is correct? Or perhaps this is a better example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUwltEBRrqs

I've never heard it pronounced 'kime'.

I always just pronounced the "CH" like the "Ch" in Chia Pet, and the rest so that it rhymes with "him". I don't know if that's right, it's just how I do it.

i just say it like when I say chimney

The wiki and various other sources say it is pronounced 'kim'.

legoless wrote:I've never heard it pronounced 'kime'.

You can hear me pronounce it that way a few dozen times in the early Selectives Lorecasts, which is just as valid as any other pronunciation you've heard, as the word CHIM is never spoken aloud in any official source yet.

So regardless of whether it is pronounced, like ch in chimney or ch in Bach, it is still pronounced with a short i rather a long i. For example, I've always pronounced Chimer as k-eye-mer.

i say it like "ch-eye-mur"
chimney
eye
murmur

Where is the "mur" coming from?

Edit: Nevermind. Missed part of the conversation.

The mythological creature, 'chimera' is pronounced 'k-eye-meer-ah', therefore I say chimer 'k-eye-mer'. (So, same as you do, Midboss).

I say Ch-eye-mer and CHIM-that-rhymes-with-chin personally.

Pilaf The Defiler wrote:

legoless wrote:I've never heard it pronounced 'kime'.

You can hear me pronounce it that way a few dozen times in the early Selectives Lorecasts, which is just as valid as any other pronunciation you've heard, as the word CHIM is never spoken aloud in any official source yet.

"Elder Scroll of Chim", I thought? The Cyrodiil generals say it in ESO.

I forgot about that. Ah, well. Transcription error, then. Same as the NPCs who call Reman "Ree Man" instead of the glorious Colovian "Rei-MONN".

It's a secret syllable. Ambiguous pronunciation seems appropriate for it. MK's kim is the best way to go for now, though it would hardly be surprising to learn that the true pronunciation is different.

I've always said kime in my head. However, chime seems the most thematically harmonious, no pun intended. I'd posit that this is the correct, "secret" pronunciation.

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legoless wrote:I've never heard it pronounced 'kime'.

As for me, every time I've heard it pronounced in ESO it like "kime". Sadly I didn't get the chance to record the NPCs saying it, but I'm pretty sure it was "kime" as in "chimera" (/kɨˈmɪərə/ or /kaɪˈmɪərə/, says the Wikipedia, so Chim should be /kɨm/ or /kaɪm/, leaving the apostrophe out because it has only one syllable).

Correct me if you must, I'm not a native English speaker.

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its k-eye-m....not ch-ih-m, not ch-eye-m, it's K-EYE-M

Depends on how you want to pronounce an English "ch" sound, there are loads of ways to do that because of the way English works having taken various sounds from other languages as time has passed - to illustrate this, just consider that you guys have used words from Nahuatl, 12th century English/French from Latin, German and Greek origins to guide your pronunciations here.