Re: How do you pronounce.....

From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:13:48 -0000

wrote:
> "Yavor" (as in Yavor Lightning, one of the sub-cults of Orlanth
> Thunderous in Storm Rebels).
>
> Short 'a' or long? Emphasis on which syllable? My instinct is to
> say it "YAH-vor",

That's how I'd say it too, but I wouldn't take that as a guarantee of anything...

> but by similarity to "flavor" or "favor" perhaps it
> should be said "YAY-vor", and I suppose that "ya-VOR" isn't out of
> the question either.

If it were to be pronounced that way, it would be spelt Yavo*U*r...

(Of course the pronunciation probably depends on whereabouts you come from anyway - To-mah-to,to-may-to and all that...)