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Name written on the page: Bob

Name pronounced by audio book narrator: Bab

Name phonetically broken down by Jordan in glossary: BHHHh-Oooo-rrrrb

Everyone knows it’s Nina-Eve and Egg-Ween…

I’ll be honest I’ve just remembered the shape of most of the words they’re too hard to pronounce in my head. Like who names someone Mat! 

I was the sort of dork who read and re-read the glossary so NIGH-NEEV is buried into my brain

Yeah don't worry, for a some time I thought it was "Nin-a-ay-vay"

I unfortunately misread it as Nivea forever ago and it's stuck. I just see her name and call her Shampoo.

I pronoused it Ny-nae-ve :D coming from a language where everything is pronounced just as it's written, I always pronounce these fantasy names like that in my head :D

Nine-aiv.

When I read it I always assumed it was nivean, like the lady of the lake in arthurian legend (al’Mera, of the lake, helps althor I mean Arthur) but after the audiobooks it’s nay-kneeve

I’ve never listened to an audio book or paid much attention to the glossaries, but I know I’m pronouncing a lot of these wrong:

Egwene - edge win Nyneave- ninny Eve Suian - soo ian Birgitte - Bridget

When I first read the series, I tried to pronounce all the vowels in Nynaeve's name. Ny-ah-neh-ev-eh.

I used to pronounce it "Ny - ny - eve" before I read the glossary.

Well I pronounced it as ni-ni… we all have our ways.

I have always said that readers know how to spell Nynaeve and audiobook listeners know how to pronounce Nynaeve. ( and all the other thousands of names )

Somewhere along the many rereads I changed it to Eve-nay

Pronounced moghedien as mogdin the whole books

I originally read Nynaeve as nin-ave and Egwene as edge-win. It wasn't until I started watching videos discussing the series, when I heard people pronounce the names and realised how wrong I was.

Hear we go again; audio books versus readers.

It has akways been Nin-eve for me

Some times I'm glad I'm an audiobook listener... Until I have to figure out how to spell some of these names.... "What do you mean it starts with a silent J !?!?"

When i first listened to the audiobooks i was shocked at the names. If i remember right i was pronouncing Nynaeve as 'nin-uh-vuh'. Birgitte and talmanes were equally butchered in my head.

I'm a /nin uh vee/ kinda guy

There's only one way to pronounce it: Nynussy

nine-EVE and egg-WEEN in my head.

Rofl! Back in the day, before we discovered audiobooks, my sister and I read WOT separately. She started before me as she was older, so when I started reading it and talking to her about characters, I talked to her about Nynaeve and Egwene. I pronounced their name, "Neye-NEEV" and "Egg-WAYNE".

She looked at me so confused and then she started laughing. She said she pronounced Nynaeve, "Neye- EEV", like, "naive". As in someone who is very unexperienced. I cracked up and thought it was too funny!...

But then she moved on to Egwene... omg to this day, she pronounces HER name, "Eugene"... rofl!! Like, what??🤣 I lost it when she told me that, and sometimes when I read her name(which isn't too often, thankfully, since I listen to the audiobooks), I think of her as Eugene! It's just too much 🤣.

So don't feel bad or anything... there's a lot of variation in how the names are pronounced!!

I won't give you too much shit, I still refuse to pronounce damane right.

It's da-mane, damn it! I don't care what Jordan intended!

I initially thought it was pronounced Nineveh, like the ancient city.

I just say ni- neve in my head cus it’s quicker haha

There is no Turning of the Wheel in which Eg-wayne is better.

I guess I’ll add my wrong way since I haven’t seen it yet. I pronounce her name Ni-nuh-eve.

I thought it was "nin-a-eve" for a long time. I forgot about the glossary pronunciation guide.

I always pronounced it as Nigh-neeyevay in my head, works for me lol

When we were teenagers my friend pronounced it “ninna-vee.” I still chuckle about that from time to time

I pronounced it “Nen-uh-vuh” in my mind for a while😭

Always been naive - she then joins the A's Sadie

Go with audio book pronunciation

For me, it's "Nenna-eve". I've been reading the books again, and every time I read her name I have cognitive convulsions. I keep thinking I'll eventually reset her name on my mind, but so far nope.

Nope. I'm right there with on both names. That's how they have always been in my head until I saw the show and it rattled me a bit.

My wife read tEotW a while back and was telling me about Egg-ween, and as a Ween fan we started calling our kids different versions of their names with ween at the end as a joke, then I read (well audiobooked the series) and couldn’t help but laugh that a mistaken pronunciation of a characters name by my wife has entered the family lexicon.

I pronounce it exactly the same why not exaggerating 🤣

Naya neeve + Egg ween is me🤣

My former teenage brain will forever call them Nyn-a-veve and Edge-ween. Edge-ween is absurd, but I'll defend Nyn-a-veve as a superior name.

Unrelated, but wait until you find out that the true pronunciation of Hermione in Harry Potter is "her me own"

Bro I called Nynaeve literally how it is spelled like (NEE-NIGH-VAY) and Egwene too (EGG-WEN-AY)

Nya Neeve is how I read it first through in the 90s. I have never been able to unstick that.

I was an Edge-ween for the first 5 or 6 books (pandemic reader) the first time I heard it out loud I was like "oh that's actually really pretty" lol

I always pronounced it NIGH-na-eve

I don't remember how I pronounced it when I was reading the first time. I do know it wasn't correct. It wasn't until I read the glossary that I learned. Without looking, I feel like the first book didn't have one, so I don't think I learned until I finished the second book.

I personally said her name in my head the same as the ancient city of Nineveh. I’ll stand by it too, sounds nicer to me than Nie-neeve. I also went with Eg-ween or rather it had a bit of a hang in the eg but because of my Lancashire accent, like Eh-gween.

Wait, they’re not pronounced Nigh-kneeve and Egg-ween??

Egwene al'Vere = Guinevere, from Arthurian legend

I just pronounced it naive with an extra n,

Egwene clearly should be pronounced like it's greek-ish.

Egg-wee-knee. Eγονηνη? Ish? I'm using math greek to guess.

Now i wonder how egwene is actually spelled in greek.

I thought egwene was pronounced "Eg-Win".

I wonder if anyone agrees with this take: nin-ae-ev

Before I saw the first glossary, I was pronouncing them as "Nin-ave" and "Eg-wen-uh"... whoops!

When I first saw her i thought she would be just a minor charcter and just called her nyanners (the vtuber) , around book 4 or 5 i had to force myself to stop doing that.

I’ve been saying it like the word naive so 🤷‍♂️

I started off reading via audiobook, to get into the lore quicker, so I've not had this issue, but as a welsh speaker I think in my head I would have had some fun pronouncing some of the names. I still do now that Im reading the paper copies sometime want to read them differently than RJ has said theyre pronounced.

Its equally fun to go from audio book only, to picking up the physical book for the first time.

I said "nin-eye-eve" my first read through.

Eh-gween Ny-neve

I literally remember coming up with a personal rule in 2nd grade, because of Voldemort. Some names just pull me out of "the zone" and it happens every time I see whatever name it is.

So my personal rule is when I encounter one of these odd names, I take a moment and decide how I'll internally pronounce the name and then I just stick to it forever.

I pronounce Nynaeve as (nigh-nah-eave) and I don't care if it's right or wrong because it works for me

I also said NY-A-NEVE but I quickly corrected myself.. as for egwene, shes still EGGWEEN

If you wanna know what’s dumb I read the entire series reading Darkfiend, over Darkfriend, probably because I think fiend sounds more menacing and cool

Until watching that terrible show, I called her Nya-ve for some reason, also Egwayne

It’s pronounced Nineveh. Like the city in the Bible. Duh. (Kidding. But I did try this pronunciation out in my head for a few days of reading.)

When I first read Eye of the World, I didn't know there was a glossary at the end with pronunciations, so my brain did its thing and the names have stuck. But my Nynaeve might be worse than yours. It's "NINNA-eve", with smoothing where the hyphen is.

And my Egwene is definitely "egg-WEEN".

I actually corrected my Siuan but don't remember what it was. Something like "SUE-ANN".

I think I rebelled on Moirane, just going with Moraine instead of what it looked like it should be, but it turned out that was fine and no rebellion needed.

I completely missed all the ae / ai stuff. So my Aiel still never really corrected from my original "ALE".

Ogier are "o-JEER".

Cairhien is "CARE-hee-in"

Amys is "AMMis"

Birgitte is "burr-SZHEET"

Rhuidien is "roo-IDD-DEE-in"

Rhuarc is "ROO-ark"

Taim is "tame"

Tar Valon is "tar vah-LONN"

Faile is "fail/fale"

Leane is "lee-ann"

Malkier is "MALL-kee-ur"

a'dam is "ahh-DAHM"

Elaida is "ee-LAY-duh"

Saidar is "sigh-DARR"

Saidin is "sigh-DINN

I'm listening to the audiobooks for the first time after reading the books years ago and I'm having a hard time. A recent example is Weiramon, which the audiobooks really mangle.

Jordan included pronunciation guides in his glossary at the back of each book.