Pokémon Names Are Confusing

[Queen_Cnidarian]

“Italian! I chose you”
*Mobster comes out of the pokeball and starts shooting the Pikachu*

[eamonnwalker]

"Of course, nobody says tor-toyce." I believe half of Britain would like a word.

[desiweabu]

In India we are taught to say Tortoyce. I came across this American pronunciation of the same word right now. Its Tortiis.

[Doommorph]

Missed opportunity to use the clip of officer jenny saying arcanine flamethrower to her growlothe for aracanine

[spartacusthememelord]

I always thought it was Dialga as in "Dial" because my brain associated dials with telling time

[Ezecool-]

Sometimes in the anime the pokemon names aren't pronounced right

[jjcelever]

I’ve never heard someone say tortus before haha, I think that’s a pretty American thing. In England everyone says tortoise, like how it’s spelled

[Hamurott_]

And that’s why it’s fun to mispronounce names like decky-do-ee for decidueye

[eggsnham.]

As a spanish speaker, I see nothing wrong!

[RadarHawk]

The anime isn't exactly the best place for canonical information. They did try to tell kids that arbok evolves into Seviper.

[justanotherchannelonyoutub]

When I was a kid, I called Poliwrath “Polijoe” because for some reason that made sense to me.

Poliwag-Poliwhirl-Polijoe

[MunchKING]

Camile Leon is like 5 different cartoon/video game villains' name based on either being camo experts or lizard people.

[aruraven]

I thought the 'Dial' in Dialga was pronounced like in sundial 'cause it's a clock mon. Really, the anime is just was arbitrary as we are.

[Mucha_Hawlucha]

I pronounce every single one of those pokemon the way you said we don't 😅 maybe because I'm British

[miguellopes]

I think this may just be an english language problem.

Although to be fair in portuguese (my native tongue) the G in Lugia should be read as a J because it is not followed by a U but the majority of of people (myself included) read it like the G in gigabyte.

[toomanycharacters]

I always loved the way pokedex says ratatat!!

[Lucifero]

Goh: intalian lets go

[Insert random angry Italian construction worker]

[shoeboxbistro]

It's a common trope in fantasy: to make a word sound fancy, replace short vowel sounds with long vowel sounds

[Simsimou.]

Pov : in french we say "roucoups" and we pronounce the "p" ans the "s" but this is because of ash

[lesterjdb]

Filipino English pronunciation tortoise is exactly what it sounds like for blastoise