undamned wrote:As a kid, when Nintendo came out in the states and most folks were playing Super Mario Bros., I was not familiar w/ "Bros." = "Brothers" and I was calling it "Super Mario Brawss." I was later corrected, but I wonder how many kids thought I was a weirdo and didn't say anything.
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Don't sweat it, brah.
I've mispronounced "Gradius" all my life as "gray-dee-us" instead of the proper "grah-dee-us" (like "gladius"). For some reason, it's the one mispronunciation in my life that I don't really feel too compelled to correct, probably because that's the way it's always been pronounced in my limited American experience. At least there's a bit of indecision (Darius) or the outright WTF factor (Ys) that colors most other titles with funny names, but I've never heard another American hit the proper pronunciation for this one.