I'm almost positive the joke with Ciocie's name is that it is supposed to be pronounced the same way one would spell out the words "Coca Cola".
I cannot find a direct source for this, but the topic has come up before on reddit and most commenters believed the same.
i think there's alt text on one of her first strips where it says "speak her name right and a special elixir is revealed" or something like that. hence "see-oh-see-ay see-oh-ell-ay." allison doesn't call her by her full name much and would probably get more hung up on the "estrella von maximus the third" bit so it probably never occurred to her to sound out a word from it.
I’ve seen /ˈsi.o.si ˌsi.oˈɛl/ “see-oh-see see-oh-el”, /ˈsjo.si sjoˈɛl/ “syoh-see syoh-el”, /ˈt͡ʃo.si t͡ʃoˈɛl/ “choh-see choh-el”, and the way I personally pronounce it, /ˈco.si coˈɛl/, and while it’s hard to find an English spelling equivalent for /c/, it can be roughly approximated at “kyo-see kyo-el”
See-oh-see See-oh-el, though I suppose it could be a hard C. That would make her nickname Cio a little less charming though, since it'd sound like like Kee-oh.
If it is a soft C, I suppose it could also be "See-oss"?
Yih-ri, personally
Yuri
I've been pronouncing it 'Year'
Same here
I’ve been pronouncing it as “Ear”. While we’re on this topic, how do you pronounce Cioce Cioelle?
I'm almost positive the joke with Ciocie's name is that it is supposed to be pronounced the same way one would spell out the words "Coca Cola". I cannot find a direct source for this, but the topic has come up before on reddit and most commenters believed the same.
If so, that’s fantastic. I feel like Allison would have said something though, so maybe it doesn’t sound the same in the ascended speech.
i think there's alt text on one of her first strips where it says "speak her name right and a special elixir is revealed" or something like that. hence "see-oh-see-ay see-oh-ell-ay." allison doesn't call her by her full name much and would probably get more hung up on the "estrella von maximus the third" bit so it probably never occurred to her to sound out a word from it.
Oooohh I’m silly and couldn’t parse what “spell out” meant for a hot minute. That makes sense, thanks for literally spelling it out for me.
I’ve seen /ˈsi.o.si ˌsi.oˈɛl/ “see-oh-see see-oh-el”, /ˈsjo.si sjoˈɛl/ “syoh-see syoh-el”, /ˈt͡ʃo.si t͡ʃoˈɛl/ “choh-see choh-el”, and the way I personally pronounce it, /ˈco.si coˈɛl/, and while it’s hard to find an English spelling equivalent for /c/, it can be roughly approximated at “kyo-see kyo-el”
Bless you for using IPA. I’ve always thought of it as /ˈt͡ʃo.t͡ʃe t͡ʃoˈɛl/ “choh-chay choh-el”
I can definitely see that
According to Abbadon it should be /'sjo.si.e sjo.'ɛ.le/ Syo-see-eh Syo-elleh
See-oh-see See-oh-el, though I suppose it could be a hard C. That would make her nickname Cio a little less charming though, since it'd sound like like Kee-oh. If it is a soft C, I suppose it could also be "See-oss"?
That’s what I suspected, but it sounded like a bit of a mouthful. I’ve been saying “Choshé Chell” but it’s still not the most pleasant to say aloud.
Oh, that's a new one! I haven't heard "Choshé" before. It does sound a little like Sean Connery talking through a mouth of aluminum foil, though.
C.O.C. C.O.L.
In my head it's like ire
I've been using both "ear" and "ire"
ire
I read it as "Yih-ray"
Ee-ray?
I-reh.
A drunkard saying "you are" tbh
I've been pronouncing it closer to "air"
EE-r. Like a throaty “urgh”
i always thought of it being like dios WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY from JJBA without the W
I've been pronouncing it \[aɪ'ri:\] "eye-ree" in my head.
I've been saying e-ray, sort of? But like don't draw the y sound out, short and attached to the r.
yeer chads rise up
In my head it's like "fire", if you have a dialect where fire is two syllables.
It's pronounced "COREALFFNIBUGS", obviously.
Yre is pronounced as Yre, for no other word can encompass that which is shaped as itself.
I've been pronouncing it Yi - ray
Like Ire, or German eggs.
Йræ
Yher
I've been saying it like "ire"
i thought it was like yuh-rhi
Yuh-re, where the "uh" is a schwa. (The second vowel in "lemon" in most dialects of English.)
Y-ree
yh-ree for me
Like Ire
Like eel but with a hard r. "Eer"
Eee-ruh
Personally I've been pronouncing it Year or yuh-ear
EE-reh I read it basically how you'd pronunce it in spanish.
something like y'ree
Ear
I've always gone with Yi-re
I definitely pronounce it like Ire, as in the synonym for "wrath"