Pronunciation - How do you say it?

I've always said 'Back-ta'.
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Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

^ Same here. I'd like to say I've heard it said somewhere, and I'm basing it off that, but I haven't listened to any audios of the books, so it must be from a video game. Maybe Empire At War?
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Knight Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 211 Location: Ekkaia

As someone else said, I'd avoid looking to the audiobooks for official pronunciation. Many years ago I listened to part of the audiobook for one of the Thrawn books, and the pronunciation was a complete disaster.
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Padawan Joined: 29 Sep 2011 Posts: 62

Xizor is pronounced "She-Zor" right? I just started reading Shadows of the Empire and the book tells you that Xizor's chair robot pronounces his name that way.

It is pronounced She-Zor, yes.

I used to pronounce it Zi-Sore.
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Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

EUC Staff Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 1204 Location: Nirn

Oh, I'd say ZI-zore.
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The best techniques are passed on by the survivors.

I say whatever happens to come out of my mouth when I try to say his name.
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So this is how liberty dies....with thunderous applause.

Those without swords can still die upon them

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I say Zie-zor. This is because I got the impression that She-zor was incorrect from the book. Apparently the chair merely elongated the first syllable. That Xizor was quite nit-picky, wasn't he? You'd think that, after becoming the head of the galaxy's largest criminal organisation, he'd learn to chill out a bit ...
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I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it. These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

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Master Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 1346

Thoughts on Swokes Swokes?

I pronounce it by taking makemake as the template: swoh-keh-swoh-kes.
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I am a Star Wars fan. That doesn't mean that I hate or love Jar Jar. That doesn't mean I hate or love Lucas, or agree or disagree 100% with him. That doesn't mean I prefer the PT over the OT, or vice versa. That doesn't mean I hate the EU, or even love all of it. These are not prerequisites. Being a man is not a prerequisite. Being a geek is not a prerequisite. The only prerequisite is that I love something about Star Wars. I am a Star Wars fan.

I say it sorta like you would say spokes as in the the spokes on a bicycle tire, but with the swo instead of spo.
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re Xizor: the first time I ever learned about him was when Shadows of the Empire first came out. I wasn't into Star Wars books or comics yet. They pronounced it SHEE-Zor on the TV spots for the toy line. So that's the way I always pronounced it.
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The year is 2261.
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Padawan Joined: 15 Apr 2012 Posts: 9 Location: Alderaan

RE: apostrophe discussion

Linguistically, at least in this galaxy, an apostrophe in the middle of a word (that's not used grammatically as an indication of plurality (like in Dutch) or possession (like in English)) is often used to designate a stop, pause, or a separation of syllables. Sometimes it's just part of the word; sometimes it references letters that have been removed from the word. So, I've generally used that as a guide in pronunciation of names, etc.

The easiest example I can think of off the top of my head is Ta'a Chume. The apostrophe in this case would give the first word double syllables: Tah-ah, instead of Tah (or Tay, if you follow the "official" Daala pruonunciation).

There's also some precedent for this in the Star Wars galaxy, at least in Mando'a, if you follow the official grammatical rules that Traviss made up for Lucasfilm.

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