From: zaghadka@hotmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:24:44 -0800, Justisaur    
   wrote:   
      
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   >Bulette - "La'and-sha'ark." "Michael Boobley" or "Bull-et" are also   
   >acceptable.   
   >   
   I always called them a bull-EHT; the stress is on the last syllable.   
      
   >Svirfneblin - "Sven-*'EFFIN'*-bling" or "SMURF-Nebb-Lynn." "Smurf" for   
   >short.   
   >   
   Yeah. Good luck with that. "Deep gnomes." That's what they're called.   
   Someone was winding the players up that day.   
      
   They all read Nietzsche.   
      
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   >Asimar - "Ahss-Ihmar" all short vowels. No comment.   
   >   
   My name is ahs-weep-pay! (Sp: Asswipe)   
      
   >Yuan-Ti - "WantTea"   
   >   
   Juan Ti-hote.   
      
   >Catoblepas - "Cammel-toe-*BLEEP*-us"   
   >   
   This is commonly just simply referred to as Gygax's bullshit monster. No   
   death save for its death stare? What the hell is that?!   
      
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   My group just got into an extended discussion on how to pronounce   
   Erinyes. One of the players had even studied ancient Greek. I didn't have   
   the heart to tell them all it's plural, and what we actually encountered   
   was a single Erinye.   
      
   Many were surprised that there is a pronunciation in unabridged English   
   dictionaries.   
      
   Ancient Greek guy and I came to the conclusion that the beginning sounds   
   like heur, as in "heuristic." So heur-ihn-ee-ihs and heur-ihn-yuh. The   
   Greek lettering indicated a leading "H" aspirate, but huhyur-in-yee-ees   
   sounded like Beavis and Butthead.   
      
   Frankly, I wanted to start calling her "urine fleas" or "ear in knees."   
      
   --   
   Zag   
      
   Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,   
   and to utter freely according to conscience, above   
   all other liberties.                ~John Milton   
      
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