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How do you pronounce Chrysaora?

kry-sah-or-ah
36 (40.4%)
kry-sor-ah
26 (29.2%)
kry-sow-rah
9 (10.1%)
khroo-sah-oh-rah
1 (1.1%)
krih-sah-or-ay
1 (1.1%)
kris-ah-ohr-ay
1 (1.1%)
I'm a special snowflake
15 (16.9%)

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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1099321#msg1099321
« Reply #48 on: September 27, 2013, 02:04:51 am »
Yeaaaah I had it right!

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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1099347#msg1099347
« Reply #49 on: September 27, 2013, 12:26:00 pm »
This thread keeps getting widely spaced random bumps, so went ahead and updated the card image to use our forum card image tool and re-added the poll that was lost all those years ago.

Btw, the "ao" in some languages is pronounced with an "ow" sound as in "cow," "sow" (a female pig), "how," "now," etc. So I'm going with kry-sow-rah.

However, the name Chrysaora is a genus of jellyfish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysaora

Their name comes from a character in Greek mythology, Chrysaor, the son of Poseidon and Medusa and brother to Pegasus. His name is pronounced Khrusaōr from the Greek (Χρυσάωρ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysaor

So the proper pronunciation is most likely khroo-sah-oh-rah, but I'm not 100% on this. Ask someone who speaks Greek natively.
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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1099469#msg1099469
« Reply #50 on: September 28, 2013, 02:27:36 am »
Weird, I always saw it as chris-or-ah
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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1108456#msg1108456
« Reply #51 on: November 09, 2013, 05:45:03 am »
Whoa... now I'm confused...  First I thought I was saying it 'Krys-sor-a' now I'm wondering if I do read it as 'Kry-sa-or-ah'...  Maybe both?!   :P
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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1123437#msg1123437
« Reply #52 on: January 27, 2014, 08:14:49 pm »
Since there isn't an 'other' option on the poll I'll just post how I say it: 'kye-rah-saw-rah'
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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1125623#msg1125623
« Reply #53 on: February 10, 2014, 03:42:05 am »
kris - sa - o - ra

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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1125627#msg1125627
« Reply #54 on: February 10, 2014, 03:51:58 am »
I say it as Key-O-Sore-ah
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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1226959#msg1226959
« Reply #55 on: March 10, 2016, 05:32:45 am »
I pronounce it Khrai-sa-oh-rah
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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1226960#msg1226960
« Reply #56 on: March 10, 2016, 05:40:07 am »
first time i notice the "r" near the beginning of the word

always called it ci-sa-ora

totally sure that in greek u can't "separate" ora (ora et labora), in latin u can separate it in the spelling (o-ra), kri is kri, isn't krai, krahi or karai, also krai in greek stands for goat or something similar (idk if in your country u can find the kri-kri yogurt, probably the most famous greek yogurt label in europe).

so should be something like kri-sa-ora, greek and latins are totally different from english, u spell the word like u read it, the only things that can change the spell are two consonants near like gl+ a vocal  (u don't spell it g-l-i, u spell it almost like y-i) or sc+vocal (is something near to shi, not schi or ski) etc.

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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1226965#msg1226965
« Reply #57 on: March 10, 2016, 09:18:49 am »
/aɪ/æm/eɪ/ˈspeʃ(ə)l/ˈsnoʊˌfleɪk/

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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1226969#msg1226969
« Reply #58 on: March 10, 2016, 01:04:13 pm »
cry-soar-a

that's my pronunciation, don't know of it's right though
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Re: How to pronounce Chrysaora? POLL! https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=14381.msg1226970#msg1226970
« Reply #59 on: March 10, 2016, 01:11:00 pm »
kry-sah-o-ra :V
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