Kavekk wrote:
Quote:
DrAnor makes no sense. DrEYnor makes much more sense based on the spelling.
Not really. ae can stand in for a clipped 'ah' sound (the way it's used in Dranor) or a long 'e' (e.g. encyclopaedia, paedophile) or 'i' sound. Are you just pronouncing an a and then an e?
Last I checked, ped*phile/paedophile are pronounced "peh-dough-file" (peh rhyming with 'meh'). In fact, I don't think I've ever seen it spelled "paedophile" (in fact, Firefox is underlining it as an incorrect spelling) but I'm too lazy to look it up, lol.
Now, other "ae" words...
Names: Morae, Danae, etc. These are pronounced "AY" as in "play" usually.
Other words (I chose the most commonly known out of the list in the link below):
Aerodynamics (Air-o-dynamics)
Aeroplane (Air-o-plain)
Drachmae (Drak - may)
Aegis (Ay-gis, rhyming with 'play')
Maestro (can be pronounced "My-stro" or "May-stro")
Caesar (See-zar or Kais-are, the latter being the 'official' latin pronounciation)
Larvae ( Larv-ay, rhymes with "play")
Aeons (Ay-ons, rhymes with "play")
And a LOT of other words.
Source: http://www.scrabblefinder.com/contains/ae/
What I
DON'T see?
Anything with "ae" that sounds like "DRAN-or".
Edited, Feb 7th 2014 9:26pm by Lyrailis