How, exactly, does one properly pronounce "Cthulhu?"

[Bake]

Bake

[DS1]

1. Rabrrrrrr

[TZ]

2. .

No more discussion needed....:rofl:

[Orrex]

3. Just like it's spelled.

Was that so hard?

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

4. I've always heard it said

Kuh-THOOL-who.

Worked in a science fiction bookstore for a few years and that was the standard pronunciation of the highly informed collector who ran the mail order dept (may you RIP, Pete).

[Orrex]

5. That's not how Lovecraft supposedly preferred to pronounce it!

Based, that is, on comments cited in Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game v.5.

Regardless, everyone I've ever heard pronounce it has pronounced it either as "Kuh-THOOL-who" or simply "Kuh-THOOL-oo."

[TZ]

7. geek.

Btw..while you were showing your true geek colors..madinmaryland beat ya to the punch my brazilionish friend....:freak: :rofl:

[Orrex]

8. madinmaryland is a shill for Big Sao Paolo

Ask him to show you his Carnivale outfit some time.

[madinmaryland]

6. For you grammarians out there, here is the way it is pronounced..

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, three Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

:evilgrin:

[Iggo]

9. I keel you.

:crazy:

[Iggo]

13. I say k'tulu...

...but I don't know why.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. "Oh- shi-"

[moriah]

11. I always said Kuh-THOO-loo.

Then again, I'm from the South.

I was the president for the local Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, though.

"Give your souls to Jesus, because Cthulhu will get the rest...."

[pokerfan]

12. It can't be pronounced by humans

We can only approximate the sound of this alien language.

According to Lovecraft: "the first syllable is pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, hence the h represents the guttural thickness."
H. P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters V

[Orrex]

16. Not with an attitude like that it can't, mister

Some crazed cultist you'd make.

:eyes:

[SoxFan]

14. CHAY_nee

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Eldritchly (nt)

[PfcHammer]

17. [tuh-mey-toh, -mah-]

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

18. Either "Kul-thoo-loo" or "Dick Chee-ney"

[mwooldri]

19. You want pronounciation difficulties?

Visit here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newyddion

For the answer to the original question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

Mark.