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Fairylover
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Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:19 am  
Another "How do you say....?"

Grogs,

How do you pronounce the name of the Mage of Hommlett? Is it like "I'm gonna BURN this fr*&66in' place down!" or like the name of the eponymous dead guy in "Weekend at BERNIE'S"? Or something else....

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Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:25 am  

I'll go with the attempted Samuel Jackson quote.
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Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:41 am  

The original pronunciation was bur-NAY.

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MichaelSandar
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Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:37 am  

I'm not sure how much weight you can put to this, but in the Atari verison of Temple of Elemental Evil, I believe it is pronounced "Burnie" Confused

However, I always proferred 'BURN' Laughing
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Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:19 pm  

"BURN" sounds like a mage I'd respect, while "BURN-ee" sounds like a mage I'd tell jokes abour (though likely not to his face). I've always said Burne as "BURN" (as in, "Burn, baby, burn!" and never "BURN-ee" (as in "Weekend at Bernie's"; Atari be damned!
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