This was just something that I thought was fun. I personally am no god at pronunciation and I usually butcher some names badly. So this is just a discussion about thing that we pronounce wrong or are hard to say in Pokemon.
Here are a few examples:
There were a couple that I remember I thought were weird when I first heard other people pronounce them:
-Solgaleo. I pronounce it Soul-galley-oh (with a sort of rise in intonation), but I found out a lot of other people pronounce it Soul-ga-leigh-oh (downward moving intonation)
-Arceus is another. I pronounce it Arse-e-us; I’ve heard others pronounce it with a hard C (Ark-e-us)
-Necrozma too. I pronounce it Neck-raw-z-ma. I’ve heard others say Neck-row-z-ma. Not a big difference, but it was still weird given that I was pronouncing it one way in my head the whole time.
Something similar which was discussed.
Cheers!
This reminds me that I only very recently realized it was called PhanPy and PhanPHy. I’ve had this Pokemon’s name wrong since its release in Gen 2 
Didn’t even realize it. Thanks for sharing
According to antique roadshow Nidoking is N-eye-doking and not N-ee-doking 
Or Nih doh king
You can imagine how italian kids butchered these names back on the days. Yes the anime helped, but we were reading the name in our way lol
Arch-eh-oos
Veel-eh-ploom
Geeggleepoof
Klef-ah-blae
This only goes to gen 5, but the Pokédex 3D Pro app (game?) for the 3DS has all of the official pronunciations: https://youtu.be/0Loz61U6CuE
They’ve actually pronounced it both ways, which is kind of weird. The actual official way is Ark-e-us, but in Battle Revolution they used Arse-e-us.
When @smpratte tries to say Celebi
Everyone looks at me funny when I say Poke-e-man’s. What am I doing wrong?
Pacifidloge. Always called it Pacific-lodge since you know Pacific Ocean. I didn’t realize I’d been calling it wrong since I was a kid until fairly recently.
Also it started as a meme because Wolfy calls it Cinder-achy but I’ve started actually calling it that now instead of Cinderace. It sounds better.
My beef:
I made this mistake too and I honestly cant correct myself. Phanpy sounds wrong and Ill continue calling it panphy
Rayquaza.
The proper pronunication is actually “ray-QWAY-zuh,” but I have always said “ray-QWA-zuh.”
Suicune has been my favorite legendary forever.
For years I had it in my head as Soo-ee-saween. Not really sure why, guess I just never bothered to read it properly. Finally heard the proper pronunciation in the anime, and absolutely hated it. I think my pronunciation is way better. Sounds more legendary my way haha.
I think Suicune messed up a lot of kids, I had it as Soo-ee-seen for a decade.
well that’s a new one. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of that one.
the man himself says otherwise
