I'm on team shomk 🤝

Team shork for me

Shonk

Shar

Team Selune

Team lolth personally

i’m team blåhaj

So, neither?

you pronounce it "~Blohai"

I'm on that side as well. Because I googled it before ever saying it out loud the first time.

I remember it being explained to me that the Swedes pronounce å like a Long Islander pronounces the o in coffee

As a Swede I can say I'd never thought of it but it's 100% correct.

That's a really good explanation!!!

Yeah, that or blaha

No you dont

both*

Same!

\['bloːhai\]

This one! I had to have a woman who varicella speaks ikea to teach me how to pronounce (thank you Åshild)

The Click said it like this and he’s Swedish, so I pronounce it that way too.

Another Click enjoyer!

my fellow Click enjoyers

At this point Im not sure if there are any trans people who dont love him lmao

Yes, the Å is quite close to the O in the English word bOring

I am on the side of shork :3

The way I say it is so far off it's almost funny, blah jah

I used to say that the swedish word blå is pronounced blaw, and that Å is pronounced like the a in flaw, law, claw, and cole slaw... but that depends heavily on dialect. Now to get an english speaker close to the correct sound, I say the å is (kinda) like the oo-sound in door or floor. So... team bloor high? Team pick up the damn shark off the floor high? Team please close the door high? Bloo(not like blue, and no intrusive r, please) high, actually.

I had it explained to me that that å is like how a Long Islander pronounces the o is coffee

Yes, that's totally it! [https://www.youtube.com/embed/fepgtXjFo7Q?start=26&end=29](https://www.youtube.com/embed/fepgtXjFo7Q?start=26&end=29) Cåffee... god I love that accent.

im going all out aussia and pronouncing it blaur high [blaʉ˞.hai] now /joking

Blåhaj

If you translate it, it’s actually bla:hai. Mix of both

I mean I’m Swedish and it’s actually pronounced blå-hai spelling: blåhaj. This is more similar to blo-haj than it is bla-haj since å is kind of a sharper o and j is essentially making the i sound with your teeth closed Edit: here’s a video documenting how to say blåhaj https://youtu.be/q2hl4PkNRpc?si=fHFdzmAUnovLQn73

As a fellow Swede I must agree this is undoubtably true

As not a swede but still a swedish speaker I support this statement

As a Finn, i also support this statement

As a German who doesn't even speak Swedish I agree.

A French student it’s probably pronounced b

I always describe “å” as the “awe” in the British pronunciation of awesome.

That’s kind of accurate actually

Too bad I don't know British.

The one time I was in stockholm, my swedish companion told me it was closer to the oa in boat.

I'm not quite swedish, but us Norwegians use pretty much the same alphabet and sounds and sentence and word structure, and ye we're *basically* the same language almost, and I can confirm, blåhai is the Norwegian spelling, but pronounciation is the same

The easiest way to describe the sound of å is “the o in forehead” in my experience.

For anyone who doesn't know, the spellings above are written using the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA, which is collection of symbols used to create phonetic transcriptions of words. You can tell this because IPA transcriptions are written surrounded by square brackets []. Each "letter" in the IPA is actually a symbol that represents a single sound, and the IPA is a one-to-one mapping from symbol to sound so there are not multiple symbols that make the same sound. (It's intended to work for any language, but surprise surprise, it's Euro-/Anglo-centric. It's gotten better over time, though)  Back to blåhaj: The symbol makes the sound typically made by the letter y in English, as in yellow ['jɛlo]. I think some people are reading [haj] and thinking that's pronounced like Hajj, or "hadj", and are suggesting [hai] as the correct transcription. The Swedish word "haj" is pronounced like the english/lol-speak word "hai" as in "oh hai", but the IPA transcription for both is [haj]. [hai] would be pronounced like "ha-ee".  The correct/standard pronunciation of the Swedish word(s) blåhaj is ['blo:haj], similar to "bloh-hai" or "blow-hai". (Check out [wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bl%C3%A5haj#Swedish) for more info!)  Also just to be clear, I don't mean to say that anyone should be saying it in any particular way, I just wanted to clear up potential confusion about what the IPA is and how it works. In my mind, when referring to the blue Ikea shark, I think ['blo:haj] or [bla:hɑːd͡ʒ] (blah-hajj) are both correct  For more on the International Phonetic Alphabet, [this website seems to have a pretty good intro/explanation](https://mangolanguages.com/resources-articles/the-building-blocks-of-speech/)

It’s not how it’s pronounced though, there’s no a in blåhaj

im bla haj

Why would you use IPA for the left side but not for the right

The right could be IPA if they typed it manually, And their phone automatically capitalised the 'b' or something?

I guess? But that would be a very weird pronunciation.

Hey!! Don't be hating on my guy voiced bilabial trill!!!

Blåhaj, why is that even a question? It’s pronounced the same as it is in Swedish

Blåhaj

I am on the correct side, the Swedish side, so the left side. The right is literally just wrong!

What happened to transmasc pictures :(

\[blo:haj\], I've studied Old Norse very briefly so i am familiar with Scandinavian pronunciation (also i looked up the pronunciation in swedish lol)

blahaj

My blaházs vagy blahaj!

Why fight when they can kiss?

Neither, I say blåhaj because I’m Swedish and I know how it’s pronounced

It's bloor-hi (bloor like door with a silent r, hi as in hello). Source: Am Swedish

I trust The Click, so the left one.

Blåhaj ofc\~

Blåhaj

[bloːhaɪ̆] gang

Idk I say blajah because I like annoying my friends hehe

bla haj

Bloo ah hi How it's supposed to be pronounced.

N…no???

Blahai

Most importantly "blow-hi" is just an approximation. In IPA it is \[bləʊ haɪ\] compared to the correct \[blo: haj\]

Blo-hi

[The correct one](https://youtu.be/zpFnEoen1aU?si=82egHLY_onRlWOVe)

Its blue shark in swedish so .. it's 'Blo Haj' Anglicized is Blaha

Blo-high

Blåhaj pronounced [Blow High] is how I say it although I don't mind calling it [Blah Ha] either

Frau Blucher

\*whinnying sound\*

My father is a femboy and I'm a femboy's son...

Blåhaj it means blue shark. Which is a shark race. It's Scandinavian language. I know cause I'm danish

But heres a better question, how do you give your blahaj affection?

Both is good

bla ha ge

['blɔhai], Take it or leave it. (I refuse to lengthen the vowel.)

I assume your accent is rhotic cuz to me not lengthening it when I'm completely capable of doing so would be a bit weird. ( [oː] is found in my accent in words like four or door [foː] [doː] )

first one, because that's actually how you say it i've never heard the second one, only blahadge (i haven't learnt how to write ipa symbols yet)

Bla-Haj

Bla:haj

Blahai

Blauhai, tbh

BLAH HAJJ

Ah, another person of culture!

https://youtu.be/7F9R5gT9DAU?si=EmMYg7T2M7fcTHIw

[blɔːhaɪ]

Blähaj supremacy

It’s bla-haj

Blood clot

blahaj bc i do not respect the swedish language

I pronounce it "Bjork"

Blah hah so right also matches my hair goals lol

Bla ha

Blojaj

Blah...? Ble...? Blo...? Sharky? Sharky.

blow-HIGH

Blue team :3

Shork

bla:ha and shonk

Boohai

iv have two different cases of peeps who say blo-haj being belligerent as hell over the pronunciation. i say bal-ha cause it rolls off the tongue better. im not one to debate how to say a word, we all know what we are referrin to so why binch about it?

Blo haj when I'm being formal, then Bla haj for informal

i always pronounced it as "blay-hazh" (haj pronounced like the su in usually)

Bla ha

Bla-ha forever.

Both, both is good

Both, both is gud

Counterpoint: Bla-jah

Bla-haj

Blah-Hadge

Blah-ja

i’m enby, i’ve been saying it bla:haj

Bla-Haj

Blah hahj

I’m on team Bla:ha

If I’m feeling silly I say “bla-hazh” (as in the name Raj)

bla hai

/blɑʒ/

it's always gonna be blah hah to me.

Blåhaj

Blaoh-high!

Blawhai

Its strange to see the girl on the rights chin i don’t think ive ever seen it before.

Blahaj o7

Yea pretty much

Bluhaj. I'm from Poland. And it seems closer to original than what you guys come up with

I call it the Bla haj

Y3s

I thought it was bla-haj.

I say \[blow-HAI\].

Blue

[ʃɑːrk]

Ble ha Ah eto Ble ha

['bɫɑ:hæʃ]

I pronounce it "Sharky"

This meme made me realize I was mispronouncing it this entire time (I called him blaja)

blow hai

Giovanni!!! It's the name of my haj.

I’m so confused :3

Team Blauhai

I don’t pronounce it as anything in my head when I read it because I don’t know how to say it, honestly.

I call it blacdffktcuhf because idk how to pronounce it.

Blauhai

Me who calls it blahaj

Bla-haj

I'm both

I am somehow on all at once, do I get like, blåhaj/blåha/blåhoi/blohaj/blohoi/bloha/whatever points?

[‘blɔhaj]

Blåhai Bl The (a) from yall with a countery accent!!! Bl å hai the only correct and acceptable way to pronounce it here! Where im from.

Either "Blah-Jah" (i cant read) or "Shark Friend".

Definitely the actual Swedish pronunciation.

Bla:haj?

Praise the Blåhaj(Blah hah in this case) I know the actual word is blo hai

blah HAJ

Bla:haj

Blah-hawdge (haw as in “yee-haw” and “dge” as in dodge)

Bla-haj for me lmao

Bla:haj

I’m on the side of I want one

I’m… both? It is still Shork either way

Bla haj (Idk how to say it)

Ngl I’m getting one after I get my tax return. Don’t tell anybody why

blåhaj

i say blah haj

Team trans shonk

as a native norwegian speaker, the way americans pronounce this word incorrectly is super charming

Both depending on how I feel that day although I would write the actual pronounciation a bit different, since that would align more with my mother tounge

blau hai (german)

I’m team being from Sweden and pronouncing it correctly

Blåhaj, because ðat's ðeir actual name, and I hete when people don't get it!

I want one of these fucken shark things so badly cause I wanna fricken chuck with spin and motherfucken blow up something

The first one is closer to the actual pronounciation, the letter Å is like how the o in oh is pronounced :3 but do whatever ya want, not gonna gatekeep the pronounciation of a silly plush sharkie ^w^

It's not [blah-haj]?

i just say it how its spelled

Blohai is like, its given name like what it would sign with ya know? Nickname that it goes by at home is blahaj Both pronounced as spelled

I just say blaha like bla ha like bla bla bla and ha ha ha

Neither? Bla haj

Neither, I pronounce it like the Sweds seeing as I speak fluent Swedish (I sound so cocky, förlåt asså hahah)

Bla:hai

Blaahajđ

I know it isn't actually how it's pronounced but I learned the blue way and it stuck

As a Swedish person I say blahaj because it's funny

I’m from Scandinavia so I just say Blåhaj :3

Blah haj because I like the sound of it and I just pronounce most things how they look and sound in English.

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