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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
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Subject: Re: A question of pronounciation
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 10:27:47 EDT
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In article <2728@drutx.UUCP> slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes:
>Just how DO you pronounce Cthulhu?


Well, if the 'ct' couple comes, as I suspect, from 'Demise' by A. Anderson,
it should be pronounced as 'zh' is, in Piezhirovski.
this implies that putting an 'h' before the 'u' in both vowels is a
representation of a 'u' with a sort of backward sloping umlaut (sp?) over it.
The 'l' would, therefore, need to become considerably more languid than
can be represented on an Latin-based keyboard.

Cthulhu is best pronounced (phonetic): 'Laundry'

-Nige Gale
(honk)