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Melee?
2007-09-26, 4:50 PM #1
So, how do you pronounce "melee"?
2007-09-26, 4:52 PM #2
may-lay
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2007-09-26, 4:54 PM #3
may-lay

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2007-09-26, 4:58 PM #4
It's Super Smash Brothers Meelee.

However, in Halo it's a Maylay attack.
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2007-09-26, 4:59 PM #5
"May-lay" is the proper pronunciation.
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2007-09-26, 5:02 PM #6
This isn't up for debate.

It's called a dictionary. Use it.
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2007-09-26, 5:07 PM #7
I know how it's supposed to be pronounced. I was curious as to how others pronounce it. Americans in particular always seem to butcher words like this.
2007-09-26, 5:43 PM #8
I used to pronounce it mee-lee up until about 8th grade when my science teacher heard me say it to a friend in class and he told me the correct way to say it. It was funny though, because we were talking about Smash Brothers Melee being released for the GameCube, and my teacher told us that he bought a GameCube just so he could play that game. That teacher was awesome.
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2007-09-26, 5:45 PM #9
MayLay of course, but a common one around Minnesota I've noticed is Mell-Lee. :downswords:
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2007-09-26, 6:05 PM #10
Well Minnesotans don't know how to say alot of words.
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2007-09-26, 6:09 PM #11
Originally posted by Squirrel King:
Well Minnesotans don't know how to say alot of words.
It's ROO-F... Not RUFF


Agreed. And root, not rutt. Seriously. It's ROOT BEER... By the pronunciation logic they use up here it should be RUT BER.
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2007-09-26, 6:10 PM #12
Originally posted by Yecti:
MayLay of course, but a common one around Minnesota I've noticed is Mell-Lee. :downswords:


Kind of funny, back when I used to play WoW I played with quite a few people from Minnesota. They always said Mell-lee and were endlessly made fun of for it.
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2007-09-26, 6:23 PM #13
may-lay
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2007-09-26, 6:24 PM #14
Rogue Leader and Romjae talk funny.
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2007-09-26, 7:11 PM #15
Pronouncing it the way it's spelled is what acctualy makes sense.
"may-lay" doesn't make any sense, and it irritates me, but for the sake of not being made fun of, I pronounce it that way.
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2007-09-26, 7:14 PM #16
It's the spelling that's doing a poor job of representing the pronunciation, not the other way around...
2007-09-26, 7:17 PM #17
It's pronounced /meɪleɪ/.

For those who don't know IPA, it's like "mey ley"
2007-09-26, 7:31 PM #18
Originally posted by djwguitarman:
"may-lay" doesn't make any sense, and it irritates me

It's French, smartass.
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2007-09-26, 8:44 PM #19
CRAP! I suck at phonetics... I picked the wrong one. -1 TO MEE LEE AND +1 TO MAY LAY.
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2007-09-27, 12:07 AM #20
Up until now I used to pronounce it meelee.

/me curses learning English mostly through reading
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2007-09-27, 12:17 AM #21
Mee-lee. The Super Smash Brothers announcer is infallible.
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2007-09-27, 12:22 AM #22
Mee-lee sounds funnier so that.
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2007-09-27, 12:23 AM #23
None of the above.

Mell-lay is the way i say it. (except without the double l sound) I guess it's just may-lay with a softer first 'ay'
2007-09-27, 3:12 AM #24
I am yet another Minnesotan who used to say meelee until I realized I was saying it wrong.
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2007-09-27, 3:47 AM #25
i pronounce it like captain rottingham in the curse of monkey island and monkey island is the only authoritative source on anything so **** off and **** your poll and **** your dictionary
2007-09-27, 3:56 AM #26
I can't see how "melee" translates as "captain rottingham".
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2007-09-27, 4:39 AM #27
Silver Orange Purple Meh-lay
2007-09-27, 6:11 AM #28
Originally posted by Impi:
I can't see how "melee" translates as "captain rottingham".


lol I thought that too for a couple seconds. Then I realized he meant as he *pronounces*
2007-09-27, 6:52 AM #29
Originally posted by Martyn:
Meh-lay


Same.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2007-09-27, 9:21 AM #30
correctly
2007-09-27, 9:40 AM #31
When I was like...10 or something, me and my friend always pronounced it meelee, then we heard someone else say it maylay, so I looked it up and now we pronounce it correctly.
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2007-09-27, 9:48 AM #32
Originally posted by Martyn:
Silver Orange Purple Meh-lay


Like a true brit.
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2007-09-27, 10:17 AM #33
Originally posted by Chaz Ghostle:
Mee-lee. The Super Smash Brothers announcer is infallible.

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2007-09-27, 11:44 PM #34
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2007-09-28, 1:45 AM #35
Originally posted by Anovis:
It's pronounced /meɪleɪ/.

For those who don't know IPA, it's like "mey ley"

I thought in IPA the vowel would be more of an "ɛ"
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2007-09-28, 1:55 AM #36
I know it's pronounced "may lay" but sometimes I goof and say "mee lay" every now and then.
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2007-09-28, 5:16 AM #37
Originally posted by Baconfish:
Like a true brit.


Coincidentally like a true Frenchman also.
2007-09-28, 9:25 PM #38
Originally posted by Aglar:
I know how it's supposed to be pronounced. I was curious as to how others pronounce it. Americans in particular always seem to butcher words like this.


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2007-09-28, 9:28 PM #39
Well... Mee-Lay..

Hmm. Well actually i seem to switch without noticing.

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