Loh-tro and Law-tro

[Graycient]

This is very random... Enjoy nonetheless!

Isn't it true that the Turbine team has it as "Law-tro"? Even though LOTRO is short for Lord of the Rings Online and the word Lord like "oh" at the start... If they're using "Of" it should be "Luh-tro", right? Where's the Law coming from? O_o


Loh-tro

Law-tro


Which one is correct? Now I'm worried I'm saying it wrong haha

[Fendrone]

The dev team might be saying it like that because they're from Bahston.


I say Loh-tro. I think Law-tro comes from people breaking it up Lot-ro, then of course saying it Lot-tro.

[Graycient]

The dev team might be saying it like that because they're from Bahston.

I hope that doesn't mean they say Lard of the Rangs... something tells me that joke might be accurate O_o Joke aside, I think you're right.

[Tuco]

Pretty sure Sapience said "loh-troh" in the recent PAX video interview.

[Graycient]

Pretty sure Sapience said "loh-troh" in the recent PAX video interview.

He does? I'll have to check that out. I heard that some/more of them it as Law-tro.

[Iktomi]

The dev team might be saying it like that because they're from Bahston.


I say Loh-tro. I think Law-tro comes from people breaking it up Lot-ro, then of course saying it Lot-tro.

I dunno. I'm in Tx and I use a kinda of a phonetic mix between Law-tro and Lot-tro, so I'm not sure that that would be a Bostonian thing.

But then I'm also an Air Force brat so I have no real defined regional accent to begin with, so who knows :P

[Fendrone]

I dunno. I'm in Tx and I use a kinda of a phonetic mix between Law-tro and Lot-tro, so I'm not sure that that would be a Bostonian thing.

But then I'm also an Air Force brat so I have no real defined regional accent to begin with, so who knows :P

In Canada, all Americans sound weird.

[Chellcn]

I hope that doesn't mean they say Lard of the Rangs... something tells me that joke might be accurate O_o Joke aside, I think you're right.

It's a RI/Mass thing - we drop "r" anytime we can :P

Funny though - I never thought of saying the abbreviation as a word. I usually just spell it out /shrug

[Tuco]

It's a RI/Mass thing - we drop "r" anytime we can :P

Funny though - I never thought of saying the abbreviation as a word. I usually just spell it out /shrug

When I'm feeling crabby I reframe the question as "Is MEO (Middle-earth Online) pronounced Mayo or Mee-oh?"

[Cindir]

When I'm feeling crabby I reframe the question as "Is MEO (Middle-earth Online) pronounced Mayo or Mee-oh?"

It's rhymes with meow - like a cat.

Loh - troh sounds pretty bad to me. Law-tro is much easier to say.

Why would you make the first "O" a long O? Grammatically there is no reason in English if you follow the basic pronunciation rules.

[trcanberra]

Had this discussion when I saw the PAX videos.

Lo-tro (as in low) seems odd to me, it is lot-ro (as in parking lot) down this way in Oz.

I'm trying hard to think of any way lot is pronounced as low in other words? (but then I have not had my morning coffee yet, may come to me later). There is 'lo and behold' I guess, the archaism may suit Middle-Earth.

[Griffy]

eh, it never struck me to say it any other way than: Low-Trow. Prolly cause it rhymes with itself.
Law-tro, or Lot-roh... no, that hurts to even try to pronounce it as I type it.
(Discussed this prolly 2 or 3 times in the past, my answer has always been Low Trow.

[Kingault]

I pronounce it as El-Oh-Tee-Are-Oh, or L-O-T-R-O.

[chetdawg30]

I say it as LOW TRO.

Funny thing though, me and a friend were talking one day, and when i said LOW TRO, he looked at me like i had 120 heads. he said, dude it's totally LOTTRO. Of course i was baffled and argued against it, so in short.......i've heard it both ways. Lottro doesn't sound right to me at all though.

[trcanberra]

eh, it never struck me to say it any other way than: Low-Trow. Prolly cause it rhymes with itself.
Law-tro, or Lot-roh... no, that hurts to even try to pronounce it as I type it.
(Discussed this prolly 2 or 3 times in the past, my answer has always been Low Trow.

Hmm - how do you pronounce lottery? Pottery?

[Alcaniel]

Pretty sure I read something quite a while back from Sapience that said they (generically at Turbine) pronounce it Low-trow, but don't know if I could find it to quote from....

[airsoftg36c]

I say Loh-troh.

When you say 'O', it makes a 'oh' sound, so it only makes sense.

[trcanberra]

I say Loh-troh.

When you say 'O', it makes a 'oh' sound, so it only makes sense.

Except in pot, lot, tot, got, pottery, lottery ...

When followed by a t the letter o is generally not pronounced oh. No big deal, but really had me surprised when I saw Sapience use the oh pronunciation on the video.

[Al.]

Except in pot, lot, tot, got, pottery, lottery ...

When followed by a t the letter o is generally not pronounced oh. No big deal, but really had me surprised when I saw Sapience use the oh pronunciation on the video.

but the word is LOTRO, meaning divided is LO-TRO in syllables, thus is LOH-TRO sound right.

[Griffy]

Hmm - how do you pronounce lottery? Pottery?

hmmm... Power Ball, Mega Millions, Pick 4...
Ceramics or Raku (the coolest results ever to come out of a kiln) ...
Heehee! But seriously, yes with double t's of course I pronounce it Lot ter ee, and Pot ter ee.

If it was Lottro, maybe it'd be different. Lord of the Twelve Rings... *wanders off to ponder a script and mmo now*
I guess it just depends on how you separate your syllables to the acronym. Lot-ro, or Lo-tro. I deem neither wrong, but I just might have to ask you to repeat yourself on vent/ts, if I misunderstand what you said. (Then again, I might ask you to repeat yourself, just to listen to whatever accent someone has. *grinz*)

[raltar2]

It's been Low trow ever since the beginning for me and my brother. Any other way sounds wrong to me.

[djheydt]

In Canada, all Americans sound weird.

And vice, of course, versa. Anybody remember Robert MacNeil (a Canadian who spent most of his career reading the news in the US on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report), in his series "The Story of English," standing on the US/Canadian border, pointing to someone's dwelling, and saying, "On this side of the border, that's a house. Over there, it's a h@use." (Using @ for schwa, since my keyboard doesn't have one.) His tongue was, as it were, double-jointed.

[djheydt]

Pretty sure I read something quite a while back from Sapience that said they (generically at Turbine) pronounce it Low-trow, but don't know if I could find it to quote from....

Well, can't somebody go to the next PAX East and corner a few devs and ask them?

[bayareadodger69]

Except in pot, lot, tot, got, pottery, lottery ...

When followed by a t the letter o is generally not pronounced oh. No big deal, but really had me surprised when I saw Sapience use the oh pronunciation on the video.

This.

but the word is LOTRO, meaning divided is LO-TRO in syllables, thus is LOH-TRO sound right.

What? It's not a word, it's an acronym. How exactly are you determining the first syllable is "lo" rather than " lot?"

If you can't tell, I'm in the LAH-tro camp. I'm also a Californian, so it's not regional. In summary, the way I see it, the correct pronuciation would be: "DUDE, brau! Why you gotta harsh on me for playin lahtro?"

[dietlbomb]

Dual-wield for the win! Oh, sorry. Wrong argument.