Talk:Reese Chloris/@comment-26317073-20151009211529/@comment-226878-20151020043257

Personally, I've never given much heed to how a name is supposed to be pronounced. It's a person's name. It's pronounced however the hell they want it to be pronounced and anybody who has a problem with that can just fuck off.

The most common way people pronounce Cameron is like camera, but I've heard people demand to be called CAM-a-RON... Stephan is pronounced both as "stee-ven" and "steff-an"... Gerard from Gerhardt can be pronounced either way despite it's spelling... Mila: "mee-lah" or "my-lah" or "mill-ah"... Thomas: TOM-US or "toe-mahs"... Leigh: "lee" or "lay"

I have characters named Michael and Rachael and while most of the characters refer to them normally, there is one peculiar character who refers to them as "Mic-ha-el" and "Rac-ha-el" which are both actually closer to the Hebrew pronunciation.

And... our pronunciations do exist in remnant. They don't pronounced Ruby like "robba" or Sky like "ska" or Jaune like "jayne" or Pyrrha like "pray" or Lie Ren like "lyurin" or Velvet like "vulvay"... the names are simply pronounced the way an English-speaker would pronounce their names. When we read the word Yang in English, it doesn't sound like "young." Weiss gets away with long "i" sound because of the upheld tradition of the dual-pronunciation of either and neither. The only true exception to this is Taiyang. The combination of ai or ay in English would usually lead to pronouncing a long "a" like in yang.