Dway-gar or Doo-air-gar?

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

How do you pronounce the underdwarfs name? I pronounce it "doo-air-gar" which seems more phonetically correct (du-er-gar).

[IgnatiusJ.Reilly]

The pronunciation guide in Dragon magazine #93 says DEW-ur-gar.

[Beewo]

Palpatines Dew it is all I can think of now

[SnarkOne]

Due-gar

[apocryphalbob]

Can't find my source but I have read (a long time ago when the world was young) some fantasy/mythology books/articles that show Dwer in use as a variation on Dwar when using generalisations and such for Dwarves.
For this reason I always read Duergar as Dwergar.
No real reason to think I am right and any other preference is wrong without sources but I still wince a bit if I hear it said any other way.

[Jäveln]

i just pronounce it duergar

[Vixziค็็็็็n]

Seriously? First off it would be DWAIR not DWAY, OR Doo-Er/Ur-Gar. But here's one better...Gray Dwarves. Next topic.

[kebab-case]

Here are the phonetics I found:
US /ˈdwɛɹ.ɡɑɹ/
UK /ˈdwɛə.ɡɑ:/

Note that this term comes from Icelandic / Old Norse "dvergur" which was the name of a mythical dwarf race of Northumberland (GB). This word is also the ancestor of the english word... dwarf.

[Yojo0o]

sah-HOO-ah-gin

[Vixziค็็็็็n]

Originally posted by kebab-case:

Here are the phonetics I found:
US /ˈdwɛɹ.ɡɑɹ/
UK /ˈdwɛə.ɡɑ:/

Note that this term comes from Icelandic / Old Norse "dvergur" which was the name of a mythical dwarf race of Northumberland (GB). This word is also the ancestor of the english word... dwarf.

Yeah this is one where I can't speak for the UK whom I usually would lean on more for proper English pronunciations but when you consider the Norse and Icelandic origin the 'r' is clearly pronounced to form an 'AIR' sound rather than 'AY' same as for Dwarf or 'Dvergr'

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by Tinball:

Go figure - DNDBeyond has a speaker icon next to a lot of monter names. You can click and hear the official enunciation. Of course, there isn't one recorded for Duergar.

Do you not own the PHB in DnD Beyond? I've got most things on there, including a recorded Duergar pronunciation.

For the record, they say "DEW-ur-gar".

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by Tinball:

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Do you not own the PHB in DnD Beyond? I've got most things on there, including a recorded Duergar pronunciation.

For the record, they say "DEW-ur-gar".

I didn't see it in the monster manual entry.

Did you go to the "show details" page? That's where I had my pronunciation guide.

[Ravioli]

Originally posted by pandariuskairos:

How do you pronounce the underdwarfs name? I pronounce it "doo-air-gar" which seems more phonetically correct (du-er-gar).

It's Dway-gar. It's been corrected many times.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by B-Ravs:

Originally posted by pandariuskairos:

How do you pronounce the underdwarfs name? I pronounce it "doo-air-gar" which seems more phonetically correct (du-er-gar).

It's Dway-gar. It's been corrected many times.

Nah, it's doo-air-gar.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Originally posted by kebab-case:

Here are the phonetics I found:
US /ˈdwɛɹ.ɡɑɹ/
UK /ˈdwɛə.ɡɑ:/

Note that this term comes from Icelandic / Old Norse "dvergur" which was the name of a mythical dwarf race of Northumberland (GB). This word is also the ancestor of the english word... dwarf.

pretty much what I was going to post (especially with Duergar being present in recent Northumberland and Norfolk verbal folkrlore).

Of course back in the 90's most of us ignorant folk were pronouncing it Joorgar because we hadn't considered it unusual and decided to go and look it up to see if it was a TSR creation or if it had actual provenance. We didn't realise there was a separation between the U and the E.

[Tim Shady]

Originally posted by pandariuskairos:

Originally posted by B-Ravs:

It's Dway-gar. It's been corrected many times.

Nah, it's doo-air-gar.

Nah, it's Pan-dar-us-kair-os.