Dune pronunciation question

[Nerys Myk]

Always thought it was Lee-to. Could be Leh-to. Lay-to seems wrong.

[Starbreaker]

BEN-ee-JESS-ər-it according to Frank.

[Reverend]

AJBryant wrote:

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I twitch like crazy every time I hear "Muad D'ib" pronounced "mwaDIB." Dammit, those are two words. It's Muad D'ib. That's Mooahd. Dib. There are TWO Ds, one at the end of the first word, one at the beginning of the second. It's the same sound you get in "bad dog." You don't say "badog."

Oh, and it's not "Chain-ee". It's CHAHN-ee."

To be fair, if you say "bad dog" loud and fast enough it probably may as well be "badog", so for when they're using Muad'Dib as a battle cry, it's understandable. Of course that doesn't excuse all the other times.

[Tpring]

I believe the Duke Atreides name is pronounced Lee-toe.

The Lay-Toe just sounds like more of the "mini-series" Anti Lynch stuff.

Both of them pronounce Fremen the same???

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I never did quite understand why the Duke had a girl's name.

[Nerys Myk]

Is Leto a girls name? I didn't even know it was a name until I read Dune. Of course names change gender all the time. Bambi was the name of male character in a movie but is used as female name. Masculine named like "Hunter" and "Taylor" are now common for women.

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I believe Leto was the Greek goddess of being unseen, and was the mother of Apollo and Artemis. As the Atreides were supposedly descended from the house of Atreus, I would have thought they would have known that. Maybe Paulus Atreides was a Johnny Cash fan.

[Nerys Myk]

Great Mambo Chicken wrote:

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I believe Leto was the Greek goddess of being unseen, and was the mother of Apollo and Artemis. As the Atreides were supposedly descended from the house of Atreus, I would have thought they would have known that. Maybe Paulus Atreides was a Johnny Cash fan.

But how much of that was actually passed down over the millenea? Does the Orange Catholic Bible have a section on polytheism?

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yes, it's a bit further along from the section on Country and Western singers.

[Nerys Myk]

Ah, good to know. I'm only up to Johnny Cash.

[jadcox@mindspring.com]

Glad I read the thread before replying. I was all set to help with the pronunciation of the word "Dune."

[Delta1]

I pronounce it like Latin -- doo'-neh.

[Trekker4747]

Benny Gizz-hurt.

[Hyperspace05]

Ah, those are all easy... Kwisatch Haderach can be a real pain, though!

[Trekker4747]

Hyperspace05 wrote:

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Ah, those are all easy... Kwisatch Haderach can be a real pain, though!

That one's easy too. Wristwatch Headache.