Pronounce this name

[jmatt]

I have been thinking about this since Joe (Knob Row) graciously said I could do the Shooter interview on June 9. I will slide Jim two index cards and ask him to pronounce the names on them.

Gilad (I say Gil-AHD)

Ivar (I say ee-VAHR)

Then, once for all, we will finally know the answer. Perhaps I should ask him to write them out phonetically as he sees fit on the card. Hmm, maybe I could do it on an appropriate comic book, ask him to sign and auction off them for CF...

I will entertain wagers for those of you who feel strongly about some other pronunciation.

Just a minor quibble, but Ivar may not have been around/planned during Jim's tenure.

Now that's a good point. BWS did the EW/AA flip book, was Jim still there? It's 1993 so perhaps it's irrelevant where Shooter is concerned...

[greg]

Ee rock or Eye rack, Ee vonn or Eye Vinn, Ee Ron or Eye ran

I suppose it'd be interesting to know what pronunciation is in the writer'so head, but to me both pronunciations are fine. Like a writer who likes his readers to use their own imagination

It's wingardium leviOsa, not levioSA.

[Aram]

I've always thought of Aram as "air ram" with the stress on the first syllable.

It's pronounced;

aww-sum.

[Brother Darque]

gil-AHD.

[Phantom]

I voted and got 90%!

Thats a great score.

[jmatt]

I voted and got 90%!

Thats a great score.

Well done!