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Old 14th November 2009, 01:24 AM
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Pronunciation of certain Ayu-related terms

Quite a few questions here so bear with me. ^^

I'm going to be working on a spoken version of Ayu's article @ Wikipedia as part of Wikipedia's spoken articles project, but since audio is much, much harder to edit than text, I need to make sure I get some pronunciations right before I begin.

So 1) how do you pronounce MTRLG? Is it "Material G", "Em-tee-are-ell-gee", or do I read it phonetically (lol).

2) Is Loveppears pronounced "love appears" or "luvpeers"?

3) Is Crea pronounced "cray-uh", "cree-uh", or what?

4) Ayumi Hamasaki × Hello Kitty: is it read "Ayumi Hamasaki ex Hello Kitty", "Ayumi Hamasaki Hello Kitty", "Ayumi Hamasaki and Hello Kitty", or "Ayumi Hamasaki batsu Hello Kitty"? (lol)

5) What about Velfarre? Is it "vel-far" or "vel-fare" rhyming with "welfare"?

6) With her titles that have forward slashes ("/"), do I pronounce it "slash", "and", or nothing? For example, do I pronounce Sunrise/Sunset (Love Is All) as "Sunrise and Sunset Love Is All" or "Sunrise Sunset Love Is All"? Same with Glitter/Fated, do I say "Glitter and Fated" or "Glitter slash Fated" or "Glitter Fated"?

7) And one for you French speakers: Orchestre Lamoureux, do I read it "or-sheh-struh la-moo-rer" or what? If you could post an audio file with you pronouncing it (I'm an American, so I have a horrible French accent lol), that would be really cool, although I know that's asking a lot.

Oh, and could you please provide the official pronunciations, like how they're pronounced in commercials and stuff?
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