Here's the thread where we ask how to pronounce words that AREN'T band names but album, song, and label names

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Here's the thread where we ask how to pronounce words that AREN'T band names (you can ask those too but there's already a thread for that) but album, song, and label names

Phallus Dei. Fun to just call it "God's Cock," but now that in addition to the amon duul album there's a pretty good heavy psych band called that, i need to know - is it Dei as in "night and" or Dei as in "Snider?" or Dei as in Dee-Eye?

Kra-a-ak (and while we're at it, Raco-ooo-on). Are they pronounced with the stutter in between, or just 'kraaaaaaaaaaaak'?

and I've always said Celtic Frost with an 'S' sound even though i'm pretty sure that's wrong. Why would it be "Seltic?"

Jay Leno, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

the word 'dei' was in my high school anthem and we pronounced it as in 'night and'. not sure how authoritative this piece of info is. i think it is plausible though because when i was studying latin, 'deo' and words ending in 'deo' (e.g. video - first person singular) were pronounced 'day-oh'.

gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're right about dei.
Those Finnish bands' album titles are unpronouncable: "kellari juniversumi", "palaa aurinkoon", "tamminauhat/tulipesa-tapes", and my favorite, "Kaikkeuden kauneus ja kasittamattomyys" (by Es, and also my favorite record in the Fonal ("phone-ul"?) catalog.

twoheadedboy, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention those Finnish bands' names themselves.

twoheadedboy, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Its KEL-tic Frost

And "Rack-COO-ooh-oon," with the stutter.

They have the best T-shirts on earth. They were kind enough to burn their tape on to CD for me... because if they gave me a tape I know I would never listen to it!

Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

There's a lot of confusion whether the Can album is "TAH-go MAH-go" or "TAY-go MAY-go"

Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

the word 'dei' was in my high school anthem and we pronounced it as in 'night and'.

It's properly pronounced like "day", but in two syllables.

Those Finnish bands' album titles are unpronouncable:

Finnish is actually dead easy since the pronunciation->orthography mapping is very direct. Once you know the sound values of the letters (which resemble those of German, with y=ΓΌ), and know that the accent is always (?) on the first syllable, a reasonable pronunciation follows automatically. I can see why the compoundwordlengths might seem apprehensioninducing to anglophones, though. ;)

The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

*implores Tuomas to record readings of the titles above and ysi them for illustration*

The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)


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