Thread: How Do YOU Pronounce "Pokemon"?

Here's I pronounce it: Pok-ee-mon...Why I say it that way is that I give the "e" in Pokemon more effort like what grammer books say about those types of letters.

Po-Kay-Mon. I'm only really interested in full up official pronunciations, so that one is the only one I've used.

Originally Posted by Gengarzilla

Po-Kay-Mon. I'm only really interested in full up official pronunciations, so that one is the only one I've used.

Is that the one they use in the anime? When people say po-kay-mon, I keep thinking about po-KAY-mon, but what I hear in the anime is more like po-keh-mon (like "pocke" in pocket), but perhaps po-kay-mon is the same thing. It's really hard to express a pronounciation in text like this.

Well, I can as well post a link to a video. I pronounce it the way they say in the beginning of this video Rika Matsumoto - Mezase Pokemon Master, Aim To Be A Pokemon Master - YouTube
I guess it's not the wrong way to say it at least, even though there seem to be more than one way to say (and spell) Pokemon.

I've always said "poh-kay-mahn" like the official pronunciation but have also said "Poh-Keh-mon" too here and there.

Po-kae-mon. As in Japanese, though I'm not.

Po-keh-mon, for the same reason that Te-em posted, the early episodes of the anime.

At Roxie's gym, at least in english, they say it that way too. (Well, really sounds like po-keh-maw, but close enough?)

Poh-kee-mon. Sometimes Poh-kay-mon though..

I have always pronounced it Po-keh-mon.

Pork a Moron

poh-kay-mon, because its the way its originally pronounced. i might also say po-kuh-mon in some cases. but NEVER po-kee-mon, that ones way to stupid.

I swear, whenever I hear someone pronounce Pokemon as Po-kee-man....just...NO.
I pronounce it Po-kuh-mahn or Po-kay-Mahn, just depends on whichever one I feel like using.

Po-keh-mon is pretty much the closest you'll ever get to the 'correct' pronunciation, that is, the way it was intended in Japanese. Po-keh-mahn is more American, because y'all tend to pronounce 'on' as 'ahn', but that's just an accent thing, it's not incorrect. And po-kay-mon also is near enough not to get you mocked or anything. The best you can do is find a happy medium between 'keh' and 'kay'.

'Pokey-mon' just drives me nuts. Don't do it. A classmate in school used to say 'there's no right and wrong way of saying it'. Uh, yes there is. It's a freaking noun, it's not up for debate. If you wanna pronounce it wrong I'm not gonna hate on you, just please at least admit that it is wrong. As someone with a slightly unusual foreign name who has had lazy english people deciding to pronounce it whichever way they liked all my life, despite my telling them how to pronounce it, I'm pretty touchy on this subject xD

I always say Pok-uh-mon. :) Sounds cool to me!

I pronounce it "Pokémon"... Duh.

Seriously, though, I just can't say "Poke-ee-mon", just the same as "Porter Rico" is impossible for me. I have to say "pwair-toe".
I usually say a sort of mix. It isn't quite "Po-kay-mon", but it isn't "Po-kuh-mon" either. I guess the best way to describe it is "Po-kay-mon", with a sort of short e sound.

Of course, when I randomly start singing one of the themes, I pronounce it however the singer did.

I've always just said POKE-uh-mon. With the Poke being the most accented syllable and the Uh being the least, and the Mon slightly more than Uh. Idk, I feel like in the show they never used to always say Poke-ay-mon, and it bothers me for some reason. But i don't think it matters in any case.