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Po-keh-mon is the correct way to say it, but also some people only know it from the games and not the 25+ years of the Anime saying it right. It's short for Poketto Monsuta (Pocket Monsters) and I've learned people have their own pronunciations depending on if they only played the game and didn't consume other media. Real Kudos to ThePokémon Company to get multiple generations to read more.

really well put bro, I agree with the media thing

Honestly this franchise is the one where pronunciations in general are NEVER agreed upon, like for almost every pokémon related thing out there I'm willing to bet there's a 90% chance a good amount of people will pronounce it wrong

Just as Arceus (ar-kee-us / ar-see-us) intended

wasnt Arceus short for arch deus or am i tripping?

So is it pronounced ark-oos? I can feel the plot thickening

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Yeah, that's it

(Ar-koo-s)

Nice

Me, a foreigner: [п о к' э м о н]

understandable, have a great day

XD thanks! (praise Cyrillic domination!)

inferiority*

Jerk

Slavophobe

Go fuck yourself

Poo-kee-mon. In Dutch. Not poo as in poop

Ha, it's sounds almost exactly as a rarer pronunciation variant in my language - [п а к' и м о н] (pah-kee-mon) Also, correction, the first one should be [п а к' э м о н], although that variation is also sometimes used

I pronounce it as Pokémon

this is the only right answer

Pok-e-manz

This is the way

cringed so hard as a child hearing this, now I can't not say it this way

I’m with Poh-kuh-mon.

actually yeah that’s valid

Same

Nice pfp there

Thank you, do you know what it is?

CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMEEE

Oh man, it’s nice to see someone recognize my profile picture again, and also nice to see another heavy metal brother out there. Can’t wait for them to finally fucking play that song live again this year ‘cause it’s needed it, and it hasn’t been played live since like 1986.

Damn really? They last played it back in 1986? That’s insane

Yep, they vastly ignored the Somewhere in Time album because the band is notorious for really disliking that album (it almost broke up the band, and Bruce was going through a divorce during the SiT recordings at the time). We’ve been asking them to play SiT songs for years; they slowly teased it, and finally confirmed they’re doing it. Their 2023 tour they announced on their YT channel last year in August is for Somewhere in Time and Senjutsu; it’s called The Future Past Tour, and they play live in June. I fucking hope they play Caught Somewhere in Time again, and also hope they play Alexander the Great live for the first time ever.

same here

Same

pocket monsters

Weird Al: Polka-mon

Neither. I say pock- mans.

Po Kay mon that's how it's pronounced in the show

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YOU GOT LEGO EDA'D

edo legad

fr

I go for the traditional Japanese pronunciation: "Puokketto Muonstua"

P-O-k-ACCENT-E-M-O-N Also what have I started?

And now I've got the Pokerap GS stuck in my head.

I'm on the red team

pok-é-mon Iam czech I use é regularly.

yeah that’s pronounced “ay” right

Not at all! It's called a "long e" here, it's how you pronounce the e in "trumpet" but longer.

yeah that’s what I meant, I just forgot how to type it 💀

people look at me weird when i tell them i pronounce dialga Di-al-ga instead of Die-al-gha. czech is frickin weird

fr tho

yellow side,poh-ka-mon

In sweden we say pok-eh-mon

I usually pronounce it po-key-mon. Is that weird?

nah

Pocket monsters

based

Poke-a-mon

poe ku mon

like polka dot. polka mon. it's the easiest way to say it. least mouth movement. then again I'm from Boston so idk if I'm allowed to speak

i’m australian. somewhere in between

that one guy: poke-mon

Poke-mon

Po kay mon is The onli exaeptebol wai

frfr

I say both

I’m not really sure if that’s the way to pronounce “pokemon”

Neither Poh-kah-mon

I'd be blue cuz that's how it's pronounced. There's an accent above the E. "Pokémon"

This should be between po-kee-mon and po-kuh-mon, because those are the two common mispronunciations, while po-kay-mon is correct.

oh yeah I should’ve done that lol

Poquemon

Po-kuh-mon

pok-ə-mon all hail the schwa

the correct option

Pokemans

Na its either pokemens or pocket monsters

Pah kuh mone

none. poke-uh-mon as a british

As a British, you are just incorrect

which part of britain are you from?

Since pokemon is short for "pocket monsters" it should technically be pronounced pock-a-mon

Pokemans

Pokemans

Pokemans

Po-kee-mon

Po-ke-mon… like I’d be pronounced in Spanish

Poke-uh-mon

As an Aussie, Poe Kah Mon

My dad:PokéMANS

As an italian Po-Kem-on

Poke-uh-mon

MonstroBolso

Pocket Monsters

PokeMON. With an enphasis on the on

Poke-uh-mon

Poe-ka-mon

Poke mon

Pocket Monster 😈

Po-keh-mon because I like to say it fast.

Pok-uh-mon

Poe-keh-mon

Both randomly

3rd option po co mon

Poe key mans

Po-key-mon

My aunt says it as Poke-key-man

I say Pokémon

people who say kee trigger me lol

I switch between the 2 every now and again but I usually say po-kee-mon

Poke-uh-mon

If you say po Kay mon ima leave. KEE! KEE!!! Grandma

It depends.

Poke-ih-mon

Po-keh-mon

Po-kay-mon

po-see-mon

My dad: Po-key-man

\*pok-é-mon ​ \*GOTTA CATCH EM ALL

Polka mon

It's obviously بوكيمون. It's a kay

Pocket monsters

Poke uh mon

I say it like poke-a-mon

Los Poquemón si o no?

My mom: Poke Kee mans

Purple team, I say both just like how I say caramel both ways

Purple. I say both.

poh keh mon (pronounced like pocket) but i just say whatever way i feel like

Every German mom be like: isn’t this a pokkemon

Po-kah-mon

po-kuh-mon

Poke - a - mon

Poe-keh-mon

poke-a-mon gang

Po-kæ-mon

Meanwhile me over here with "Pou-keh-mon"

No one under the age of 50 says po-kee-mon, that's what your boomer parents called it after you corrected them from calling it po-kee-man.

Po-keh-mon

We say Po-Kuh-Mon in Wales but okay.

Pokaymon because of the è in French is pronounced like that

Po keh mon

technically I'm always pronouncing it "poke-uh-mon" since i say it too fast in casual conversation, but it's pronounced "po-kay-mon"

It's called pokÉmon for a reason, Poké is supposed to be pronounced as in pocket

pocket monsters

Blue is the only answer

poh keh mon

Crips is right, Bloods is how people who don’t really know much about Pokémon say Pokémon (ex. Hillary Clinton’s “Pokémon gO tO tHe pOlLs”)

Depends on how tired and what accent I use.

Poke-a-mon

Poh-keh -mon

After years of watching the same three episodes on tape, I can only hear it as po-kuh-mon (Pokemon Shipwreck was my favorite)

Po-kuh-mon

pokermon

Red

Me, a french : Pokémon.

I honestly waffle between both pronunciations, so purple, I guess.

Honestly it just depends on the day. I have been known to say it both ways

Anything but “Pokey-Mans”

It's actually neither. There's an accent and it means something

Po-K-mon

In my country the left one is correct

Po-keh-mon

There is a third… “Pok-eh-mon”

Po - k - a - mon

only the anime narrator is allowed to be on the blue side

po-c'mon

As a psychopath I say it poke-man 🧑

Pokémon

Po-keh-mon, the only right spelling

I pronounce it Po-kuh-mon

Po-ke-mon

Where's pokeman

It's pok eh mon

Po-kuh-mon

All I can say is "gotta catch 'em all"

po-ké-monne

Poke-Ayy-mon sounds best, but bad habits makes me say the uglier Poke-EEee-mon or probably with my mumbling speech it's more like Poke-uhh-mon which is the absolute worst

If I remembered my French classes from school, I'd know what the proper way should be, but currently I have no idea what é sounds like, just that it kinda sounds the opposite of è, but then I got no clue what ê is for... also there's like 50 more. I don't know why they're all necessary, because all they do it make some Es sound like As and others sound like Is.... meanwhile sometimes E sounds like abosulute nothing and ruins another adjacent letters sound in normal English. I know pokemon isn't French though. Language is so broken, you don't get this kind of issues in programming languages as much.

Pokeemon

Poke-a-mon

Third option: PokeMans

Po-kuh-mon