Do you pronounce it man-a or mah-na?
I tend to use both in a totally arbitrary way. But I firmly believe that the proper way is mah-na.
Mah-na. Saying it like “maena” just reminds me of my old weeb days where I’d be triggered if someone said “Maenga” instead of “Mahnga”
Its mah-nah. Old word.
I pronounce it “man-a” in western RPGs because that’s the version I hear most here in the South, but in JRPGs and when talking to my friend named Mana, I automatically pronounce it “mah-na.”
4 Likes
Boils my blood like the old Shaman vs shayman debate. Even in wow they have said “shayman” a few times and I hate it. THERE IS NO Y!
2 Likes
But is it tear or tear?
Is it Dune or Dune?
Or when I found out in ff7 it’s pronounced “Mahko” and not “Maeko” for Mako.
Mahko sounds so weird after YEARS of my dumb butt saying Maeko
1 Like
I say “man - uh”. I am sure it isn’t perfectly correct, but it gets the point across.
“mah - nuh” is probably closer to right?
Aluminum and aluminum
Aloo-min-um and Alu-min-yum
Is it throw, through,thorough,threw?
Neither. It’s mah-nay
The player characters, and Maut, pronounce it the first way.
Anyone who says it like this needs to be tagged and monitored by the fbi and cia.
1 Like
Most of us Aussies say it this way tbh. 
or as we like to abbreviate literally everything: al-foil
I mean, you can just type /oom and hear how it’s pronounced.
2 Likes
It’s clearly pronounced mahna mahna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sBXAsaTHAY
4 Likes
Someone hit the nail on the head earlier: in western fantasy it is man-a and in eastern fantasy it is mah-nah.
To make(o) it worse, the shark is “maeko”.
see that’s probably where i got it from