Lol

Are you having a stroke?

English wise, dialguh but deealguh sounds cooler ngl

I just call it soap

@@Shadowmare4575 Dalkia and Pialga are a throwback to Mikey's and John's joint Metronome randomizer playthrough of Pokemon Black and White. By sheer coincidence, one of Mikey's starter choices was a Dialga while one of John's was a Palkia. So they nicknamed them Dalkia and Pialga respectively.

Yes

Yes

YA VUL TAL!

Doob-blade

@@danemartinez193 B••b blade

As long as you aren’t pronouncing Kyogre as “Kee-oh-gray” it’s fine

The day I found out I had all of the Hoenn trio wrong... I rebelled. Grew-Don, Key-Oh-Gurr, and Ray-Qaz-Ah 4 Life

@@Want300 Japanese guy once told me: 'Ay-cuzza for Rayquaza XD

Japanese may be original but it is no longer relevant when English dominates this franchise

I remember looking up that Charizard's Japanese name was Rizādon though Charizard is and has always been my favourite Pokémon because it looks like a dragon and I love dragons

I'm also British as I always pronounce Nincada the same way I would pronounce cicada

@@PrinceYamiUchihaCosplay im british and pronounce it the official way. because we dont have cicadas here, who even says it out loud to know how its actually pronounced?

@@alwaysabiggafish3305 I'd be surprised if we got cicadas in the UK

Yeah, that’s true

I can still hear "WTF happened to the floor"

MY NAME IS YAVELTAL

Arkoos* HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT THE SPELLING OF ARKOOS BY SWAPPING K WITH C

@@sleepybirdcitrine501 Today our guest is YVELTAL (you say YAVELTAL,) (and I will reply with What?)

Technically, he did admit he would try to start calling some of them by their official pronunciation

@@joshuawenninger6439 yeah but that doesn't help my joke

true

@@joshuawenninger6439 yeah like maybe a fourth of them

*proceeds to insult me for my hippopotas pronunciation*

Lol

Lol

Lol

I've always pronounced this one as "Hip PAH poh tas" it's a wonder how I even pronounced it the first few times, but the way mikey says it makes more sense. It reminds of Bid Daddy when they were trying to teach that guy how to read

@@Sheenifier Lol*

4Kids were also the ones with the STUPID CRAZY CENSORSHIP OF SONIC X! I mean...why censor the word library and replace it with a book? What were they thinking?

@@heroessquad2019 lets not forget one piece with the cork guns and water guns that still killed people

@@lavenderwalrus9875 And Yu-Gi-Oh with, well, basically everything they did there

There is a reason 4kids went bankrupt

@@lavenderwalrus9875 If you can't pay the cash, then you're out with the trash. Feel free to quote me. Also rest in piss forever miss, Key Ogrey and GRUdon.

If it makes you feel any better, I pronounced sprigatito "sprig-gay-she-oh" I'm still embarrassed by it 😖

I actually used to call it Yveltal but now I might actually call it Yahvultal whenever I replay Pokémon games that have it in it with it's new spelling

Alternative Title: My beef with the “official” pronunciation of Pokémon names

@@Bigjess2you 🥩

Micheal is back!

...why do people spell Michael like that? Are you all doing it as a joke?

@@hoitem6500 Not really

"Grooodon and Kyogreee" I remember that well

Grudon Keyogreeaa

Groodon Keeogree

@@mr.redguard6702 I had to unlearn that after playground arguments.

“Go, Growlithe! Here’s a jelly donut”

I was coming here right after that to say this lol

I intended to mention the magus connection as that's the reasoning behind my pronunciation.

It comes from the word magi which is pronounced mah-gi

Mismagus is probably how i would pronounce it (drop the “i” or make it close to silent, because it doesn’t have much place in that pronunciation)

Do I renounce it right: Miss- Mage- Ee- Us

Perfect idea! It happens with real animals too. I have heard different pronunciations like zeb-ra vs zee-bra and ci-kay-da vs cic-ada

That's true, even happens with letters, like how some people pronounce z as z.ed however in the US you'll here it pronounced as ZEEEEEEEEEEEE lol although I also respect the official pronounciation, because I used too pronounce patrat as pat rat. I know it makes since, but that also sounds dumb to me so I started calling Patrat by the way the anime said it.

@@amaccoy it's zeb-ra for me

Or even the possibility that people in the anime pronounce it incorrectly

This is actually a perfect idea. Regional dialects are a thing in the real world, so why not in the Pokemon world as well? What if for example, the people from Lumiose pronounced Zygarde as Zee-gaʁd (with the heavy r), seeing as they are French influenced, and the people from Geosenge call it Zai-gard?

Actually, I have a friend who says "groodon." I don't know anyone who says "kee-oh-gree" though.

i pronounce ben-ee-tea

Also PIDGEOT TO PIDGET... HOWWWW

@@agentdon1760 Well Bulbapedia has said that it's name is derived from the words "pigeon" and "jet," so that one at least makes some sense

@@agentdon1760 me who pronounce dal-gia and ben-ee-tea

They're also the ones responsible for the whole "jelly donut" thing

@@unitds27-delta “Oh let’s have some onigiri- whoops I mean jelly donuts”

4Kids at it again making errors lol

One of the only things I know about 4Kids (English is not my first language, I didn’t grow up with it, although we did have very similar changes) is that they make so many changes Probably so things are what children already know about instead of confusing them with japanese terms they probably don't know about That's stupid though

@@user-gp2rf3hn1f Lolipop cigarette.

Yeah, the pronunciation of Pokemon names wasn't the reason why the dub was taken away from 4Kids...

@@samuelstannard730 The reason was bankrupcy after they got their legal asses handed to them by Konami due to the whole Yu-Gi-Oh fiasco. It turns out they were more depending of THAT rather than Pokemon.

@@irrespondible you're exactly right!

Fair enough, that certainly was the main reason, but my point still stands in that 4Kids pronunciations are not official

Like for example, the official pronunciation for Raikou is “Rai-koh” due to the huge emphasis in terms of its etymology (as it originates from Japan), yet 4Kids caused many people to mispronounce it as “Rai-coo” with the Legend of Thunder special. Same with how people mispronounced Misdreavus as “Miss-druh-vis” instead of “Mis-dree-vis”.

Lol

It’s POH-ta-TOSES 🤣🤣🤣

@@Xradbley TOES

@@UFO_Monchi I wrote it wrong as part of the joke, because it’s about a video about pronunciation so if you read it how I wrote it, you see the joke

@@Xradbley i know its a joke when you said TOSES I had an Idea TOES

Yes, I know. The "exceptions".

Yeah I can relate

Not all books have hidden meanings I was just joking i respect all teachers

I was never taught that rule.

As someone who speaks fluent English, I have never understood these rules that are, yes, helpful sometimes, but then SO MANY words break that because English is not one language, it's like five in a trench coat. There are *so* many loanwords. I before E except after C, unless your feisty foreign neighbour Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs following a heist by caffeinated weightlifters where they leisurely deceive overweight heirs to forfeit their sovereign conceits. Or when you heinously seize his conceited heifer from the ceiling. Weird.

Sadly, even it being a Japanese first thing doesn't help all that much. Since Aron goes against how roumaji would pronounce it as.

@@madladdie7069 They usually just re-name Pokémon entirely in English. "Aron" is supposed to be like "iron," which works in English, but not in Japanese. Its Japanese name is actually "Cokodora." So, it's not even close to having the same name.

as someone said, English is 3 languages ina trenchcoat pretending to be 1

No, he's talking about breaking up their minds and re-arranging them so they pronounce it right.

I think the thought process with doo-blade is duo blade

@@thienquoc5790 He sounds more like he's talking about breaking their backs...

*neck

Yes

LOL I forgot about that anime mistake. And I guess water types are weak to fire types like brick said

@@randomcommenter4246 lol brick

I'll call Poliwag Poliwrath, thanks Pokerap

Dammit, beat me to it

@@randomcommenter4246 hey Ash Greninja lost to Mega Charizard X that rule still applies to this day.

I somehow misread the comment and thought you were about to say its mouth was zipped because it was known for screaming things that would hypothetically get it BANned from online communities.

Yeah, banshee and marionette makes more sense

I would be fine with this personally, with that reasoning.

Yeah, I thought of the banshee before bane but apparently I’ve been calling it bane without even realizing it

I always pronounced it like the imp mobs make sounds in wind waker

learning facts and being able to recall facts ≠ smart. and definitely not genius it just means you have good memory and recall

I mean, that def not something I had lol. My memory is so bad. Sorry if I wanted to compliment Mikey

I mean he could be a little nicer from insulting me so much when I pronounce hippopotas how I do

Palkia and Pearl???

​@@splashmanej3Perlkia

@@VeryTastyAlmondszx91 *gasp*

That’s fair. For me, if I find out I’ve been pronouncing a Pokémon’s name wrong, I correct it. Actually, I have a friend that pronounces Cinderace “Cin-der-ANCE”, and it really annoys me because there’s only one N in its name.

why does no one put the emphasis on the second syllable like i do?

@@eumorpha876 So you pronounce it “Am-PHAR-os”? Yeah, I’ve heard it pronounced that way too

but if the accent changes the language of the region should also change

His dim witted brain didn't really occured to me in xyz because he seems smarter or something

Ya vah tul

yah vul tul

This! (Okay, not a linguistics degree in my case, but a very intense fascination with linguistics on a hobbyist level with a side of "I took Latin and also medical terminology which is 97% etymology".) So many of these, I pronounced the way you'd pronounce them in Greek because medical terminology also taught me to pronounce things like they're Greek 97% of the time.

English is a messy language that can't decide whether it's romantic or germanic. Word parts from all over and too many words that don't spell as they sound.

Nnaaa more like English dont follow its own like 98% of the time

There wouldn't be any fairy types :/

@@Gallarday some fan games have edited the game to where fairy types exist in the game even though its pre gen 6

yes, i think the gen 4 johto games are better

@@CocktailBoomin the only johto one with fairy types I can think of is gs chronicles

Fairy type is from kalos

I remember referencing that when watching a Ghibli movie with a friend (I believe it was Spirited Away) and there was onigiri on screen and I just automatically went, "delicious jelly donuts" and they were very confused and I had to show them the clip and we spent five minutes laughing. a lot of the pronunciations that used to be right were actually never right. Seasons 1-8 were dubbed by 4Kids, and they just... Did a whole lot wrong. Reminds me of those old Pokemon handbooks by Maria S Barbo. Things got better when the Pokemon Company started handling the dubs and the books.

@@spectralwiitch7544 I don't agree, I think 4Kids handled the anime better than TCPI. The only problems that 4Kids had working with Pokemon is changing obvious things like the Jelly Donut thing. I think TCPI's casting for Pokemon is so much worse than 4Kids casting with James, Ash, and Meowth being the worst of them and it's not because they're newer. James's "new" VA puts to much emphasis when he's saying stuff, Ash sounds even more like an emotional less robot than the original English VA for Ash did, and it's been a while Meowth's "new" VA sounds decent, I just prefer the original. I understand not letting 4Kids dub Pokemon anymore since they handled other shows either averagly or did so bad ANY market for it was killed like ONE PIECE but to my knowledge TCPI didn't even attempt to hire the original dub actors. Honestly the new actors is what kills the show for me now, Pokemon's anime was never complex, but the Voice Acting makes it so much more unwatchable than 4Kids, the only thing they did was make Brock look like an idiot by calling a rice ball a jelly donut. I've watched the Spanish dub for the newer shows just because it's that much better before and it's the only other accessible dub for me in the US that doesn't require me to risk getting a virus on my computer. Not that there's anything wrong with Spanish dubs I actually quite like Spanish, I just prefer to watch shows in a language I can understand, and I have a very limited ability to speak Spanish.

@@spectralwiitch7544 yeah lmao 4kids we’re trying so hard to make it understandable for English speakers but they were also high

*brock holding a rice ball* “these JELLY DONUTS are great”

Also Quoting Squirtle "You Can't Use The Anime As A Pronunciation Guide They Pronounced Hippopotas Hippopuhtoss"

how about "Manman"?XD

Mantult

Mandult

what about man

Manray.

That was just the Pokérap luckily.

They also called Beldum "Bedlum" and Torkoal "Turkoal" in that rap. I kid you not. Go listen to it again

@@Twilit_Gamer "Bedlum" in Russian mean "mess" lol

@@user-br8nz5yt2x lol. As much as I do like the Hoenn pokerap, it is a mess on it's own, isn't it?

Those are accurate though. It is Groodon.

The Spanish pronunciation of hipopótamo is like what he is pronouncing. It's not ee-poh-poh-TAH-moh, it's ee-poh-POH-tah-moh, so his pronunciation would be correct anyways Source: am Spanish speaker

@@Mari-Schimmer i understand why I failed Spanish

@@Dragon_Muenster LMAO it's alright, English and Spanish pronunciation of words, even the ones that are similar, can be quite different

@@Mari-Schimmer I read it as Hee-poh-poh-TA-mo

yes, i was confused when he said that he didn't know why it was called nin-card-a and then i remembered that americans say sick aider. (also i'm aus and i think most of us say sick-arda)

From what I've heard, in Australia it's pronounced as (ci-kah-da)

it’s si-kah-dah in aus or at least where i am in aus

its Si-Kah-Da in australia

In spanish is also "si-ka-dah", so overall, yankees are wrong XDDD

😂sucky-one😂

I waited for him to at least mention that. It felt like he doesn't know the existence of that word.

I always thought it was based off the word magi, plural of magus.

I think so to, like how magick used to have a k

Yeah, given Magus is latin based, not everyone knows it, despite it being a bit more common at this point. I thought of that one too though.

@@ReijiNRen The fact that he's a gamer makes this worse though. It's such a common word in RPGs, I think. Is Pokemon the only thing he plays?

lol

Same 😭

I knew this for years cause i watched pokemon talk , but honestly , watch the series its great

The shiny would be Raw Bacon Bird of Doom

Only the shiny looks like bacon

I call the shiny "steak of death"

Well the first two are acceptable

Agreed

Mikey's fans don't pronounce it Mickey, or spell it Mickey, that's for PokeMEN7 fans.

Well yeah actually, but maybe a small percentage of Mikey's viewers😂

The last one is people not being able to spell an actual name people have and needing their ears checked

He is the messiah!

Same. That's how I've been pronouncing it for years.

Same always said it that way

I always call it like that

And then there is me who says "Cob-al-eon" as I assumed it stemmed from the word cob (which is a breed of horse, of which Cobalion is the right height).

Yeah true

Voltage the Jolteon is pissed that this makes sense. (Sorry grammar edit)

SUSan reSUScitate verSUS unSUStainable SUStainable

I don't get it...

It worked word as it would have to with eon

I unironicly call aaron that before I watched the substitute teacher skit.

*hippo-po-tas*

@@lolexguywe don’t care

Lmao

Hey mods ban this guy

@@drakox9603 Mods...do it

Lmao

Tanjelly Kadabrah Abrah

Don’t even get me started on read and read

@@crystalfurry17 and grass and grass

Or caramel

@@crystalfurry17 Remember that read rhymes with lead and read rhymes with lead, but read and lead don't rhyme and neither do read and lead.

Or how my teacher (who is from New York) says “yad stick”

OK but like theoretically if the poketubers were teachers what would they teach? I feel like lockstin would be a history teacher

@@M0thMage Poketubers as teachers sounds sick! I would love to have them as teachers lol. Maybe Pokemen7 will be a P.T Teacher?

Reference to Dhar Mann?

A long time ago Mikey did a series where he applied certain Pokemon to real life physics.

@@syedannankamran6266 Yeah

I heard in a video about BD/SP a guy legit called Hoenn HEEON. The comments rightfully destroyed him for it

@@darknesswave100 LMAOO HE IS 4KIDS REINCARNATED

@@darknesswave100 bro got too caught up with eevee evolutions

Jigglypuff: *cries in pudding*

This is also the case with many real world examples of portmanteaus, which is what many Pokémon names functionally are

I had pronounced nearly all pokemon wrong but there.is only one meme reason for cobalion I pronounced it coblion as in a cobbler because of his fancy ass shoes

That would be Miss-May-Gi-Us, though, not Miss-Maggy-Us.

@@CaptainDCap yeah, I didn't really talk about the rest of it, I actually say Miss-Ma-Gi-Us

i pronounce magus as mage-us so it wouldn't work for me

I assumed it came from the spanish word for wizard "mago"

@@k4zikaze well at the end they all might just be cognates, bearing the same linguistic origin, which ended up evolving to a /g/ in some languages and /dz/ in others. So while it may be more rare to find people using the /g/, it's just as right in this case

Imagine if anyone called it Hippo-Potus

I always just said Hippo-tato or Hungry Hungry Hippo as a kid. It's like anemone, my mouth just refuses to make those sounds in that order.

I’ve always pronounced it hippo-pa-toss like the official pronunciation

I was amazed by him not drawing parallels to the Wingardium Leviosa pronounciation in Harry Potter. I was waiting for it to be mentioned for so long!

I had the same thing! Made the mistake of watching this while drinking tea and now I have a huge stain on my shirt lol

I've always defaulted to English and Spanish; which is weird, because that was long before I started learning Spanish, before I knew Spanish pronunciation. So I basically noticed retroactively that when I see a word I don't recognize I often pronounce it in a way that just happens to match Spanish pronunciation.

@@KingNedya that’s actually interesting o.o I guess it was kinda rooted in you subconsciously? Must give you a lot of grief though

@@ibriselric2 I think it might be because I used to love Dora, and I would watch it all the time as a toddler. I didn't learn much, but the pronunciation must've stuck. And it doesn't cause me all that much issue, but it did cause me to absolutely butcher the name Charlemagne.

That's how I pronounce it. Makes the most sense, since it gets part of its name from cobalt.

that's how i've always pronounced it, too.

Well that means theres 4 people here that say it that way. Always thought it referenced cobalt

Actually the french duex (two) is prounuce as a weird imbetween duh and doo.

doo-blahd

@@sticks4632 lot of nasal in that language. Portuguese too

Dooblade is still better than shdninja

*Shedninja

I’m gonna call it that from now on

Hahaha you're killing me, I'm gonna call it Yerneas since today.

And it's official that poliwag is pronounced poliwrath

I understood that reference

Scyther is now pronounced Alakazam

Where’s my main man *jelly donuts*

Bulbasaur is now Nidoran