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08-31-2021, 11:30 PM
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#61
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Hercules
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ParisDean
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.
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like the weird slew of people calling Shang-Chi "Shaang-Chi" since the movie is due out.
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09-01-2021, 12:05 AM
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#62
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
Adamantium Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 7,188
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ParisDean
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.
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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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09-01-2021, 06:40 AM
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#63
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Gen 13
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: High Hrothgar
Posts: 9,570
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Where I currently live, Thor is a two syllable word.
“Tho-urr”
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09-01-2021, 05:50 PM
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#64
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Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: ________
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Dark-side
Mag-nee-toe
X-zavier
Nay-more
Door-mah-moo
Cap-ten Uh-murca
Just fyi...
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09-01-2021, 05:53 PM
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#65
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Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: ________
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrYac
like the weird slew of people calling Shang-Chi "Shaang-Chi" since the movie is due out.
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I'll have to plead guilty on that one.
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09-01-2021, 07:19 PM
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#66
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,144
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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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09-01-2021, 07:44 PM
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#67
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Kiss my shiny metal arse!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: New York City
Posts: 3,302
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Philintheblank
X-zavier
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When the X-Men are reintroduced in the MCU, I hope Kevin Feige rights this wrong.
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09-01-2021, 09:03 PM
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#68
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Hercules
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 13,814
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Philintheblank
I'll have to plead guilty on that one.
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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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09-05-2021, 10:22 PM
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#69
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Columnist Thunder Mod
Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Denver Area, between Asgard and Krypton
Posts: 21,364
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Quote:
Originally Posted by protector2814
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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Count me in this crowd, Jerry!
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