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Hey Basil! These are what I think to be the top 10 mispronounced words in MapleStory! Let me know how you pronounce any of these! I hope you enjoy the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE17pJPk6XY

January 5, 2015

18 Comments • Newest first

Kazzooey

I heard some Youtuber pronouncing Mille horribly wrong and I wanted to strangle him to death. "Put awhl ur SP into Milly"

Reply January 12, 2015
Sungoon

I'll give my input: (capitalized letters indicate accent) (and by the way I'm from the midwest so I have use the 'a' sound as heard in "at" a lot lol)
Ludibrium - loo Dee bree oom (It's a latin word meaning toy, put it into google translate and the voice sample pronounces it this way)
Pianus - Like piano -o +us, accent on the 'a' sound
Ariant - Air ee ant
Kanna - Ka(midwest)nnuh
Aran - Erin (sounds weird to me as Ah run)
Zakum - zuh Koom (arabic word for the Quran's mythical tree in hell, put Zaqqum into google translate and that's how it is pronounced)
Henesys - Hen uh sis
Leafre - Lee fruh or sometimes Leefer
Mesos - A no brainer: rhymes with Pesos (maple pesos), pronounced May soes
Mille Aiguilles - Meel ay Gweel (hard g here)
@Kaxi - Mille in French breaks this rule, so it is pronounced Meel, and I assumed Aiguilles followed it, but it doesn't (guess it's nicer to make it rhyme with Mille anyways)

Reply January 11, 2015 - edited
WizNewb

Ludibrium -- Loo - dee - bree - um
Pianus -- Pee - anne - us
Ariant -- Arr - E - aunt
Kanna -- Can - uh
Aran -- Air - ran
Zakum -- Zak - um
Henesys -- Hen - ah - sees (Like the Whiskey with a extra S)
Leafre -- Leaf - ray (I Used to say Leafy over skype and everyone thought I was high asf)
Meso -- Mey - so
Mille Aguilles -- Mill - ay - aug - ill - ess

Reply January 8, 2015 - edited
ShadeCombo

Is it really in French that two L's is pronounced as a I/Y? I thought it was only in Spanish. I pretty much go like the European dude in the video but for Mille Aguilles it's "Mil (as in Millimeters) Ah-gill (hard g)"

Reply January 8, 2015 - edited
SereneDear

10: Ludibrium, I say Loo dee brum.
9: Pianus, Pee an us
8: Ariant. Air ee ant.
7: Kanna. Exactly that. Kahn. Uh
6: Aran. A (the letter) ran.
5: Zakum. Zah k um.
4: Henesys. Hen eh sees.
3: Leafre. Leafer. Leafers everywhere.
2: Meso. Meh so.
1: Mille Aguilles. This one I know how to pronounce. Me le Ah g we. The only thing 10 years of french classes helped me with so far.

Reply January 8, 2015 - edited
TheAffroman

Broooooooooooooo, I said it's MEEHL EHGUEEY. GUEEY, not GEY hahahahahahah.
EE like in the word Tree btw!

Reply January 8, 2015 - edited
Barquifa

ugh i hate MEESOS
may-so people. MAY SO

Reply January 8, 2015 - edited
PorkerPig

i say hen-zeez

Reply January 7, 2015 - edited
klydekiss

@kaxi: Yup that's correct however when you try breaking it down and explaining it to someone whose first language is English I usually try to break in down with the simpilist sounds. It actually makes it easier for some people to learn it and if you do it this way, it's still pretty seamless, it's just an easier way to not butcher the lango but don't get me wrong you are absolutely right~
Say it fast as the word should be said and you get the same sound =]

Reply January 7, 2015 - edited
kaxi

[quote=klydekiss]1.Lu-de-bree-um
2. Pee-an-us
3. Air-re-ant (My friends say Ah-Rai-ant
4.Kan-nah
5.Ah-ron
6.Zah-kum Im almost sure it's Zah-koom
7. Hen-na-seas
8.Lee-Free
9.Meh-sos
10. The last one means 1000 piercings... Uhm THAT is pronounced Me-leh-gu-ree and you say the gu-ree part fast almost mashing them together, and at the end of ree you have a sliight "er" sound. I'm French this is the only class and thing on Maplestory I can pronounce correctly lol

This was a fun video![/quote]

In French, Two L's together usually pronounce the Y sound.
So, It should be Mee-Yuh or something.

Reply January 7, 2015 - edited
HalloweenTown

i will say it how ever i feel like...

Reply January 7, 2015 - edited
klydekiss

1.Lu-de-bree-um
2. Pee-an-us
3. Air-re-ant (My friends say Ah-Rai-ant
4.Kan-nah
5.Ah-ron
6.Zah-kum Im almost sure it's Zah-koom
7. Hen-na-seas
8.Lee-Free
9.Meh-sos
10. The last one means 1000 piercings... Uhm THAT is pronounced Me-leh-gu-ree and you say the gu-ree part fast almost mashing them together, and at the end of ree you have a sliight "er" sound. I'm French this is the only class and thing on Maplestory I can pronounce correctly lol

This was a fun video!

Reply January 7, 2015 - edited
Shir

Always pronounced Arans wrong, huh? Ah-ran? Uh-ron? Aaron? wat. And I was always attacked by my friends for saying "mes o's", instead of "mey-so's". "Zak 'em" and "Za-koom" sounds pretty funny, though. x)

I was kinda expecting Hime, though. Ngl.

Reply January 7, 2015 - edited
Sammi

I pronounce Pianus "Pie-An-Us"
Zakum "Zack-Koom"
Leafre "Leh-freh"

Reply January 7, 2015 - edited
Youbility

I've had 2 years in French, and Mille Aiguilles has to be slurred. Mille is just "mill" and aiguilles "eh-gweel" Though if you try to say both words in the same sentence it has to be slurred together. It's hard to write how to pronounce it because it's just how the French is.

Reply January 6, 2015 - edited
Voxous

@cheesemochi mille aiguillesis french for "thousand needles" where mille is pronounced like mil, and aiguilles is egg-wee

many of phantom's skills are in french. "Carte noir" is simply "black card"

Reply January 6, 2015 - edited
cheesemochi

If you say the "correct way" as how it's pronounced in where it is originated:
(And obviously, you can't correctly write down Korean/Japanese pronunciation using English alphabet...)

10. Loo Dee Bree um (Loo as in Loop, except pronounced short, same for 'ee' as in Bee)
9. Pee Ah Noos
8. Ah Ree Ah-nt
7. Kan nah
6. Ah Ran
5. Zah Koom
4. Leef Re (Re here is as in Do-Re-Mi)
3. He Ne Sys (He and Ne works similar to Re in leafre)
2. Me So (Same for Me)
1. Mille Aiguilles is actually called 'Ultimate Drive' in KMS. And I have no idea how to pronounced 'Mille Aiguilles' because I don't even know what language it might have come from.

http://puu(.)sh/ea2ed/61bc27853e.png

I tried my best....

Reply January 6, 2015 - edited
kibbistino

I never knew Ludibrium and Ellinia had the extra i. I honestly used to think it was Ellina and Ludibrum

Reply January 6, 2015 - edited