Talk:Lord's Blade Ciaran/@comment-24129583-20131111090600/@comment-90.145.11.77-20161123210633

Let's 3 years belated reply here:

last poster has a point. Just because it's pronounced in a certain way in Japanese is no guarantee for the pronunciation ending up the same in the English version. Or for it to ever be consistent at all in the first place.

For a ridiculously confusing example, take Quelaag. In-game, her sister pronounces it quay-lahg (as in the first syllable of "lager", the type of beer). The Wiki here then claims: 'Queelag's name, according to Miyazaki himself, is pronounced "kwee-leg."' Then we look at the Japanese name and it's クラーグ (transcribed: kuraagu), so that's kuh-lahg (where the "kuh" sounds like the French "que", meaning the "ue" is almost silent and there's no W or diphtong anywhere). So that's no less than THREE pronunciations from official sources that are all completely different.

The weirdest part is there's apparently no Japanese audio for the game, so even in-game her name's pronunciation is not consistent.