Greyhawk names?

[Andy Cooper]

I say duchy of "jeff" because one the the players in my campaign is named
"jeff" spelled Geoff so I never even thought of saying it any other way.

[Brian Parker]

Apropos this,

How do *you* pronounce the Duchy of Geoff?

"Jeff" or "Gee-off"

No idea myself, just trolling for ideas.

Anonymous wrote:

> Want the right flavor to Greyhawk names?
>
> This is exactly what I had in mind when I asked for word lists of
> the languages of the Flanaess a few weeks back.

[C0971]

I've always pronounced it "Jeff"

Chad

[Black Dragon]

Andy Cooper wrote:

> I say duchy of "jeff" because one the the players in my campaign is named
> "jeff" spelled Geoff so I never even thought of saying it any other way.

Interesting. Since I am named "Jeff," spelled J-e-f-f, I always thought of
it as Gee-off.

[Christopher B Siren]

I'm pretty certain that it's prononced "Jeff" as in Jeff Perren, co-author
of Chainmail and namesake of Perrenland. Similarly, I think that Keoland
& Keoghtom are meant to be pronounced Kay-o-land and Kay-o-tom, since
they're named after Tom Keogh which I'm pretty sure is an alias for Don
Kaye = Murlynd, and the funder of the initial publication of D&D.
Somewhere, though is a pronunciation guide from an old Dragon article
which should settle this. Can anyone confirm that Tom Keogh & Don Kaye
were one and the same?

Chris Siren
cbs...@hopper.unh.edu http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren
Myths and Legends: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html
Gord's Greyhawk: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/gordmain.html
UNH Observatory: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/observatory.html

[Gregory Bernath]

Christopher B Siren <cbs...@hopper.unh.edu> wrote:

>Somewhere, though is a pronunciation guide from an old Dragon article
>which should settle this.

There was, but it didn't list many of the Greyhawk pronunciations.
"Nyr Dyv" is another unsolved mystery. (I say "near div").

One that it did list was "Iuz". It's "ee-ooz", not "eye-ooz". Or if
you say it fast, just "yooz". Sorry, pet peeve.

>Can anyone confirm that Tom Keogh & Don Kaye were one and the same?

The story I had heard was that Tom Keogh was a friend of Gygax when
they were teenagers, and Tom had died young in an automobile accident.

--
Greg Bernath gber...@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu

[Ubiquitous]

In article <36770943...@pt.lu>, bpa...@pt.lu says...

>Apropos this,
>How do *you* pronounce the Duchy of Geoff?
>
>"Jeff" or "Gee-off"

"Geoff" is an old way of spelling "Jeff".
I know someone named Geoff, in fact.

[Snuggles the Psycho shepherd]

> >Apropos this,
> >How do *you* pronounce the Duchy of Geoff?
> >
> >"Jeff" or "Gee-off"
>
> "Geoff" is an old way of spelling "Jeff".
> I know someone named Geoff, in fact.

ditto. He says to call him "jeff" Geoff is just old form jeff. but if
you want a different "feel" to the language, then by all means call the
place GEE-OFF. <perhaps with an old english or maybe a dutch accent> <or
bad french, "ah WELcome to zee dushy of jay-OOf"> hehe

--
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[Derek Weimer]

I call it "Gee-off". Simply because I feel this gives it more a fantasy
sounding name rather than "Jeff".

Ubiquitous wrote in message <914103093.447330@flux>...

>In article <36770943...@pt.lu>, bpa...@pt.lu says...
>

[Phil Rhodes]

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:21:38 -0500, "Derek Weimer" <de...@one.net>
wrote:

>I call it "Gee-off". Simply because I feel this gives it more a fantasy
>sounding name rather than "Jeff".

For some reason, I've always preferred the spelling "Geofp" from Andre
Norton's _Quag Keep_, which I pronounce 'GEE-offp'. I guess because I
read the book before I saw the 1980 folio.

-Phil