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Aug 03, 2005, 09:45 PM // 21:45
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jun 2005
Guild: The Amazon Basin [AB]
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Pickin or Pieken?
How do you pronounce it?
Personally, I pronounce it Pie-ken, but friends of mine on Vent pronounce it the other way. Just wondering the consensus of the board. 
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Aug 03, 2005, 09:47 PM // 21:47
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Hall Hero
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California Canada/BC
Guild: STG Administrator
Profession: Mo/
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It is Piken Square.
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Aug 03, 2005, 09:48 PM // 21:48
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Jul 2005
Guild: mustache riders
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PieKen for me.
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Aug 03, 2005, 09:52 PM // 21:52
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra, AU
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I pronounce it as "Lee-ahn-drii".
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Aug 03, 2005, 09:53 PM // 21:53
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: MN
Profession: E/Mo
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Pie-ken.
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Aug 03, 2005, 09:57 PM // 21:57
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Hall Hero
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California Canada/BC
Guild: STG Administrator
Profession: Mo/
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Look here for it.
http://www.promisance.biz/guildwars/GWMapMiniAsca.jpg |
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:00 PM // 22:00
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Jul 2005
Guild: mustache riders
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Age, uh... We're talking about pronounciations. We know its spelling.
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:00 PM // 22:00
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Mongolia!... But sadly Florida
Guild: Rulers of Mythology <ROM>
Profession: R/Mo
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? How does that have anything to do with this thread?
Pie-ken for me, keep in mind you know that in the medivel ages they used pikes as defenses, same concept 
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:04 PM // 22:04
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: May 2005
Guild: Storm Striders[STRD]
Profession: N/W
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Picken. Both of yours are wrong to me.
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:05 PM // 22:05
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: south derbyshire england
Guild: Coffin Dodgers Unite [RiP]
Profession: W/Mo
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pik-in. end of.
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:08 PM // 22:08
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Academy Page
Join Date: Jul 2005
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It's like Pike with an N on the end.
I would doubt anyone whose first language is English would pronounce it with a short I sound. It's one of the first rules you learn in English, the presence of an E after a single consonant lengthens the preceeding vowel. Like all rules involving language it's not always true, but I can't think of any exceptions at the moment. Actually I just though of one, it doesn't work too well when the consonant is a W, like in vowel, bowel, towel, trowel... But that's it, I can't think of any more exceptions. Except for America. And operation. And iteration and profiterole. OK, so the rule doesn't work too well if the consonant is a W, or at the very start of a word, or sometimes in the middle. But Piken definitely has a long I sound. OK? |
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:11 PM // 22:11
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Somewhere unexpected
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Can't be Pik-ken because you would have to write Pikken or Picken, not Piken.
Gotta be Pi-ken. |
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:14 PM // 22:14
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2005
Guild: PHC
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Pie-ken here.
Last edited by elenna; Aug 03, 2005 at 10:18 PM // 22:18.. |
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:18 PM // 22:18
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Somewhere unexpected
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Let's look at:
hide -> hidden wide -> widen the first changed the pronunciation, thus an extra d. hi-de -> hid-den the second didn't change: wi-de -> wi-den |
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:28 PM // 22:28
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ
Guild: The Black Hand Gang [BHG] and The Black Helm Gang [BHeG]
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Pie-kin is my vote.
Anyone else go through thinking that Tyria was Tie-REE-uh? Then you hear Glint voicing over after one of those jungle missions something like... "the tide has turned for TEE-ree-uh." (Rhymes with Syria.) |
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:30 PM // 22:30
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: south derbyshire england
Guild: Coffin Dodgers Unite [RiP]
Profession: W/Mo
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it`s a fantasy game. all things are possible.
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:32 PM // 22:32
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: south derbyshire england
Guild: Coffin Dodgers Unite [RiP]
Profession: W/Mo
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Quote:
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:36 PM // 22:36
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: May 2005
Location: UK, Bristol
Guild: Gwen's Red Capes [Gwen]
Profession: Mo/R
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Pie-ken
Tir-ee-ah Cry-ta Ass-ca-lon Sar-de-lack and so on for me 
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Aug 03, 2005, 10:44 PM // 22:44
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Academy Page
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California
Guild: [PSST]
Profession: Mo/E
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Ehh, English sucks anyway. Too many inconsistencies... in spelling/pronounciation.
One example I like is laughter and slaughter. |
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