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Old 08-31-2021, 11:30 PM   #61
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I'm reviving this old thread because I just watched a YouTube video by The Cosmic Wonder about Marvel characters rumored to debut in future films and he was pronouncing Ka-Zar as "Kuh-ZAR". I know I wasn't saying it wrong all these years so I looked it up to verify and it indeed rhymes with "Quasar".

In the same video he also was confusing Man-Thing with Swamp Thing so that should have been a clue.
like the weird slew of people calling Shang-Chi "Shaang-Chi" since the movie is due out.
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Old 09-01-2021, 12:05 AM   #62
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Nine years later, my mind remains unchanged about how to pronounce Magneto and Xavier. Despite what the movies and cartoons say, "Mag-NEET-o" is as wrong to me as hanging toilet paper under the roll instead of over.
On a serious note, to try to sway you...

The word "magnet" comes from the Greek magnētis lithos, "the Magnesian stone", a lodestone. (Lodestone being a type of iron through which magnetism was first observed.) Magnesia - an ancient Greek city.

You're right about the toilet paper though...
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Old 09-01-2021, 06:40 AM   #63
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Where I currently live, Thor is a two syllable word.
“Tho-urr”
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Old 09-01-2021, 05:50 PM   #64
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Old 09-01-2021, 05:53 PM   #65
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like the weird slew of people calling Shang-Chi "Shaang-Chi" since the movie is due out.
I'll have to plead guilty on that one.
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Old 09-01-2021, 07:19 PM   #66
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I'm pretty old & have been buying his comics since they 1st came out & were on spin-racks in 7-11s. I've always pronounced it Shang (rhymes with the powdered o-j, Tang) & Chi, (rhymes with she). We all called him that back in the day. He came out to coincide with the popularity of the tv show, Kung-Fu. You'd watch Kung Fu on a Thursday night, than rush out to a 7-11 over the weekend & buy Master Of Kung Fu, Ironfist or the huge, b&w magazine, The Deadly Hand Of Kung-Fu, which feature all the Marvel' Martial Arts Masters.

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Old 09-01-2021, 07:44 PM   #67
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When the X-Men are reintroduced in the MCU, I hope Kevin Feige rights this wrong.
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Old 09-01-2021, 09:03 PM   #68
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I'll have to plead guilty on that one.
granted he's not a character that gets talked about often, but i had never heard anybody say it that way until recently.
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Old 09-05-2021, 10:22 PM   #69
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I'm pretty old & have been buying his comics since they 1st came out & were on spin-racks in 7-11s. I've always pronounced it Shang (rhymes with the powdered o-j, Tang) & Chi, (rhymes with she). We all called him that back in the day. He came out to coincide with the popularity of the tv show, Kung-Fu. You'd watch Kung Fu on a Thursday night, than rush out to a 7-11 over the weekend & buy Master Of Kung Fu, Ironfist or the huge, b&w magazine, The Deadly Hand Of Kung-Fu, which feature all the Marvel' Martial Arts Masters.

Count me in this crowd, Jerry!
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