Pokemon Quiz But HOW DO YOU SAY THEIR NAMES!?

ITS ARKOOS DAMN IT!

boys go to jupiter to get more dewpider

raikou was obvious to me, in some asian language like Mandarin, Japanese, etc. kou is pronounced koh

Raikou comes from Japanese- "Rai" meaning thunder or lightning and "ou" meaning king

Aegislash is said that way in the anime as well

I was so blown away by some of these that I had to look up clips from the anime and all of them were RIGHT!

Their pronunciation of ferrothorn makes no sense. In latin it is ferrous, meaning related to or containing iron. They just removed the us, so really is should have a e sound not an a sound, so should be more like fe reh thorn.

Every time I see Rayquaza pronunciation confusion it makes me giggle because my name is literally Aza (Ay-zah) so im used to saying Ray-kway-zah!

Do either of you know ANYTHING about language conventions?

I've always been annoyed by people who pronounce Vivillon with an L sound. Like, it's so clearly French-y. There's NO WAY it's supposed to be pronounced with the sound of an L. I get that I might know a bit more about French pronunciation than some people, but this can't be that obscure of knowledge when it's so known and obvious for random southwestern American me.

Almost all legendaries and mythicals take their names directly from the Japanese translation, just romanized most of the time. Most of the legendary pronunciations use the original Japanese vowel sounds.

So Raikou is pronounced that way, because that is the japanese name, and that is the English spelling of the word

ar-KOOS

illumise is literally just the english pronunciation of the japanese name, irumize.

Wait...have people actually been saying zay-CHIN?! I have always pronounced it, and only heard it, as ZAH-shee-in.
I have said both ill-LOOM-ise and I-loo-MEE-zay, but I-loom-MEE-zay is what I've known as correct for a few years now.

After looking up the anime for most of these im starting to realise this book is more legitimate than poketubers. Zacian, reuniclus, and swablu are all pronounced how it says in the anime. They are canon

my whole life i prounced ratata as “ratta-tatta” because i have a SEVERE issue with repetitive letters. and i stand by that

Will just repeatedly asking “why would they do that?” Is a mood lmfao

I actually almost aced this I got 1 wrong 🫨

Naganadel is inspired by German. "Nadel" is just "needle" 😅

I pronounce it like it's said vih-vil-leon, because that feels right to me, even though there isn't any other vowel after the l's. It's a habit at this point, because i read it wrong.

I usually pronounce it Re-yoo-NEE-klus

Aegislash's name is pronouned that way because of the mythical shield Aegis [Ee-jis]

So I have definitely always said
Zah-shee-uhn. 😂

It’s funny because in Australia, we say these the way Scolastic thinks they should be except Farigaraf…

Well I’m DEW-pih-done

For Illumise: I have to be completely honest when I say that I have pronounced it as EE-loom-MEE-zay before and will probably do so again 😅

Actually it's "Toj-demaru"

i say zaw cian and illumi say

I had one of those books (up to usum) and I would just read it like there was a surprise test

Easiest thumbnail ever: AR-koos, RAZZ-uh-quazz, and Reh-GHEE-say.

I got, like, most of these right. The only two I remember that are absolutely incorrect are reuniclus and ferrothorn. The rest of them, yeah. That's how I've understood them to be pronounced based either on language context clues or other people

I always imagined illumise as a little European girls from like France or Spain or something so I’ve always pronounced it “right”

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 fans all knew Aegislash right away! The EE-Jis!!!!

...The way all of the Mienfoo options pissed me off..

Me-En-Foo.

Me-En-Foo.

Myen-foo, is the correct answer, and it's said, Me-En-Foo, or Me-Yen-Foo. Not My-En-Foo.

This was an amazing video! The play along aspect, the laughs at the answers. Thank you very much for brightening my day!

its me-en-foo so i got confused

most people i know call it zah-shee-uhn

welp drink ip because im pretty sure thats how its pronounced

edit: i was right

i say it ME-EN-foo

There was a girl that called Rayquaza Ray-KRAY-zu

For Mienfoo, I've always pronounced it "Mee- ehn- foo" but when you say it all together, it's more like myehn foo. I was so surprised that both of you pronounced the ie like Ī

Listen, RuiNicklus is my favorite pokemon, but I’m rejecting that proposed pronunciation.

I always thought I said dewpider wrong because it was fun to say like that, who could've guessed it was correct

ive known it’s pronounced ark-ee-us bc silvally is like a manmade arceus and it uses the “RKS” system, but i still say ar-see-us and i will be happily wrong