How do you pronounce your main character's name?
By
Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-12-02 17:30 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Dang... I should have come up with a weirder transcription for that. I have no imagination when it comes for phoenetics, it seems, curse my rigid mind... And my poor sense of humour 
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Eiko is not, as many people assume, pronounced "e-ko" (I'll admit that even my American mind likes to do it that way, though). It's actually pronounced "eye-e-ko" (with a shorted "eye" sound, so it flows a bit more like "eh-e-ko"). Romanji Japanese does not, as a rule, have extra letters, so "ei" is actually pronounced as two separate sounds.
Of course, some famous Eikos pronounce the name differently, and they're welcome to do so, but I pronounce mine "eye-e-ko".
Divus: "Di (short I) -vus,(like "bus")" although I think the more "correct" Latinish pronunciation would be "Dee-wuus."
http://translate.google.com/#en|en|Mylia Stenetch
I am lazy, the listen button will tell how it is pronounced. 
Ultimate Damz
Ultimate is fairly straight forward i'ld hope, however my handle/RL nickname isnt. Majority of people pronounce it like "damn/z" but really its like "dame/z".
Annoys when sometimes, especially when i got announced as a finalist on the radios cossie comp ages ago and they said damnz, was like noooo thats not my name! 
@Damz Find me on the global channel Union Chat. One of the best "chat channels" ingame!
All of my characters are really straight forward with perhaps the exception of Injusticiar.
in-juh-stish-ee-er
Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but I liked the look of it for a Arachnos soldier.
Based off the word Justiciar, which itself is often butchered as Justicar, like it's some kind of justice mobile.
They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!
@Starflier
There's nothing really tricky about Jade Dragon, Blue Diamond, Genie Gold, Bloodwolf, or Sandy. More, with me it's getting people to use the right nickname, most people call my online persona here "Jade" and either Jade or Blue is often used for my characters in game. However, my own nickname for my mains is their initials, so JD, BD, GG and BW. Sandy doesn't really lend itself to a nickname, but it is her name, not a reference to sand powers or anything.
Arachnophelia I pronounce like arachnophilia, but it could also be "Arach-(n)Ophelia", with a bit more emphasis on the "o". That's an intentional pun, I made Ophelia her real name.
Experiment OEBR1 his acronym is spelled out, not pronounced. So "Oh-ee-bee-are-one".
R4-CHL is pronounced "Rachel". 
Her nickname is "Rache".
Psycommando I pronounce "Psy-commando" not "Psycho-mando".
Finally, I have two ex-D&D characters that might be a little hard to pronounce. Galendon is pronounced GAIL-en-don, as his name was derived from a character named Gaildor. And Arladen is pronounced ARE-la-den. Although as a nickname I will usually call him Arlo. In both cases, though, the accent is on the first syllable.
Wandering over into D&D for a moment, my sister had a character named Foryncia, For-EN-see-ah, and my mother had a character Arianna. For CoH (because Arianna was taken) I created her as Arianya, Air-ee-AN-ya. I've never gotten around to creating Foryncia in CoH, simply because a flame mage is just too straightforward.
You had both right, as they're pronounced like you'd pronounce the name Samuel and the word Tow exactly as you described it. I just tried being cheeky for a bit
See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.