How do you pronounce the word Pokémon?

[Moises]

I'm just wondering how you say it:
Pok-ay-mon (supposed to be correct),
Pok-ee-mon,
Pok-uh-mon,
or some way totally different.

 

[The White King]

Po-kay-mans

 

[betagold]

It could go either way with Pok-ah-mon or Pok-ee-mon, but I voted Pok-ee-mon, and now I'm having second thoughts, because it might be Ah, not Ee.

 

[Hyasynth]

Wasn't there a topic like this already? .___.
Ah well. I used to always say it as Pok-uh-mon, but now I've begun pronouncing it as Pog-ey-mans Pok-ay-mon. xD

 

[Moises]

I didn't know there was a thread like this one... oops. :-|

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Wasn't there a topic like this already? .___.

Not that was posted in in the past month.

 

[VibuzeSG]

I alternate all the time, but I tend to use "Pok-uh-mon." It's how my friend used to say it, even if it has no basis whatsoever.

 

[Moises]

I say pok-ee-mon. I can't help it. I learned that way, and It stuck that way. :-|

 

[Amewsment]

Poe-kuh-mon or even Poe-kah-mom

 

[Queenofotakus]

My pronounciation varies between Pok-uh-mon, pok-ee-mon, and pok-eh-mon.

 

[Moises]

Poe-kuh-mon or even Poe-kah-mom

Aren't those kinda the same?

 

[Te-em]

I pronounce it pockemon (poke is like "pocke" in pocket and mon like in monster). That's what they do in the anime to, so I still say it that way. I've heard that before the anime was released outside Japan there was an episode where Pokemon was spelled in english letters and was spelled Pockemon. I know people think that is strange, but even if it doesn't look very good it is still logic. Pokemon is after all Engrish, since "poke" is from poketto (pocket).

 

[LightningTopaz]

I say it Poh-kay-mahn

 

[Railith]

Poh-Gee-Manz

 

[Sailor Tay]

po-key-mahn

That's how I learned it, and that's how it will stay.

 

[midorix]

i say it the right way... pok-ay-mon

 

[Lesley_GSC]

I say pok-ee-mon. I can't help it. I learned that way, and It stuck that way. :-|

Same. Only recently I've started saying "Poke-ay-mon" more often.

I only used to pronouce it like that when I was in a major discussion, but anymore I've started to say "Poke-ay-mon" about as much as I say "Poke-ee-mon."

 

[questionsleep]

Wow I'm surprised to see that the most voted was "poke-ee-mon"!
I always thought serious fans found that way insulting! I actually still find it insulting.
I'm amazed when I go to cons, or meet someone who claims to like Pokémon and then they say "poke-ee-mon".

I thought the default way of saying it correctly was "poke-uh-mon". That's the way anyone I know says it.
I used to say "poh kay mon" on account of the accented e (é), and it's even said that way sometimes in the first season. But also in the first season it's said "poke-uh-mon", specifically I remember "Professor Oak! Where's my [poke-uh-mon]?".

 

[charmandersquest]

ぽけもん.

I always pronounce it ぽけもん.

 

[questionsleep]

I always pronounce it ぽけもん.

Weeaboo.
One of the things I was going to post, but didn't, because I thought everyone'd be a reasonable english speaker when speaking with english-speakers,
went like "I used to think it was proper to say it the japanese way, since in Japan they call it "po-ke-mo-n". But then I remembered that I speak english."
I am surprised that in localising it, they didn't pronounce it "pock-eh-mon" since it's POCKet monsters, not poh-ket.