BURNDAYRAZ

[Kingdom of One]

My girlfriend pointed out to me the other day that my pronunciation is not the intended one.

I was saying `burn-day-rays'. As in, burn them with the power of the sun!

[Kuranes]

Its more akin to Burn Their Ass yeah.

[The Avatar]

You've got to love the glyph names. That was always one of my favorite bits of flavor.

[Darvin]

This one has always been the most difficult to figure out. I had to look it up on the wiki to get it. All the other descriptions were self-evident.

[Lujo]

Really?

I've guided myself with the PISSORF rule - the more profane interpretaion the more accurate. Maybe it's more obvious to non native speakers. If you pronounce it out loud in a hammy voice (such as when bombasticaly calling out a spell you're casting), and stress every syllable it's pretty obvous. BURNTHEIRASS! BURN/DAYR/AZ!

[Darvin]

The problem for me was where I put the stress: BURN - DAY - RAZ
When the stress should have been: BURN - DAYR - AZ

[Kingdom of One]

Yeah, it didn't occur to me to try anything except variations on Burn - day - raz.
Day Rays seemed to fit so I went with that.

[dislekcia]

What if the spelling were "BURNDEYRAZ"?

[Darvin]

Probably would be a bit easier to figure out, but at this point I wouldn't change anything. It's not like you need to get the joke to enjoy the game.

[Kingdom of One]

I think I would have interpreted BURNDEYRAZ as intended.

I also don't think it's particularly important. I mean, most of the time I think: oh yay, finally the fireball glyph shows up.

It's just amusing to me that, while other people were internally screaming BURN DERE ASS in a super deep voice as they flung fire at their enemies, I was lightly sprinkling them with sun beams.