How to pronounce "Mana" properly - eviltoast

Square Enix uses the bastardized American pronunciation “man-nuh” for the English dubs, which is not incorrect, but the original pronunciation is “maw-nuh”

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    And here I thought it was derived and bastardized from “manna” the bread. TIL

    • AbelianGrape@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      Which, to be fair, is also derived from a word which would be most accurately (with English vowels) pronounced as mah-nuh. Although at this point “manna” is definitively also a word of English whose correct pronunciation is with /æ/.