Kuat pronunciation...

How is this word pronounced? Is it Kwat?

 

I believe it's Kooah-t

 

Ku(Koo) ate.

 

Coo-watt.

 

I pronounce it so that it rhymes with "wait."

 

Yeah, I pronounce rhyming with "wait" as well.

 

I'm sorry. I just go by the audiobooks all the time. and besides that, I don't wanna end up confusing it with the real-word nation of Kuwait. I don't really think an author would name a planet after a real country...

 

funny I've heard it pronounced Kuwait in some of the audio sources. possibly the video games.

Also don't forget that nubia, or tatooine are named after real places.

 

Both ancient kingdoms, I think, right? But Kuwait is a modern-day state... oh, well...

 

It's "coo-watt" in the COD audio book, isn't it?

TC

 

I pronunce it Q-at

 

Coo-watt. I always pronounced it that way.

 

i pronounce it a little differently:

Koo-AT

(Koo like a pigeon says, AT like it rhymes with "flat")

i just think it sounds neat that way.

 

I sat koo-wott

 

coo-watt

That's the way they say it on the game X-Wing Alliance.
If it's good enough for Lucasarts it's good enough for me.

 

I pronounce it like the name Jim.

...but I'm probably wrong.

 

By any chance, did Margaret Ann Lewis put Kuat in the pronunciation guide at the back of Essential Guide to Aliens? I haven't checked. Hopefully she did, but I can't remember anything from Kuat being in that book.

 

I pronounce it "Quat."

 

Quat, Koo-watt, all the same -- is how i say it.

let me add another to the list:

kwatt

 

I'm with Bib. I always use the 1 sylable (sp?).

Rhymes with hot. Kwatt.

And in my experience, the audiobooks cannot be trusted. The Han Solo trilogy says things like "Pal'-puh-tyne" and "Kor'-us-kant".

 

Ku rhymes with who

at rhymes with hot

So it's Koo aht-Kuat!

 

Well, remember -- in some places on Earth, the pronunciation of a word can change from mile to mile as you visit small villages with different dialects. Over the english-speaking world, many words have many different pronunciations. I say toe-may-toe, but I actually do know someone who says toe-mah-toe. There's not one way to say these words. Even in the movies, sometimes it's Han and sometimes Hahn in terms of pronunciation.

 

I pronounce it k-ott. As in you k"ought" to do something other than post on the JC all day.

 

Right you are mastadge which allows for more than one "right" way to say things.

 

Yeah. Han says, "Ord Mandell," doesn't he?

TC