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how do you pronounce all the wiccan holidays?

WereLu

Hi there :

Like most things, there will be deviations on the pronouncing of these names, due to dialect etc etc.
You say tomayto I say tomarto!

These are how I pronounce them

Yule: yool
Imbolc: Imbolk
Beltain: belltayn
Lughnasad: loothnasar
Samhain: samain


hedge

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I heard Samhain is pronounced somet else but I cant remember what so im just saying it how its spelt but it was somet really weird lol

Yeah, it is pretty difficult to get a handle on the correct dialect. I just kind of wing it too. It's funny, but if there's some name or word I just can't get, I ask my eight year old. She's pretty good at breaking it down to understand it, and most often, I think she's right. :28:

I don't know I think these Holidays names are easy but then agein I speak a different language and these names are not English.

Alhandra - Samhain can be pronounced as sow ( like a female pig ) een.
That may be what you're thinking of.


hedge

It could be that actually, I will ask my sister when she gets here.

Yea I knew Samhain sounded like really weird lol, its the only one that sounds completely differant from its spelling as far as I know

I don't know, they all look fairly close to their spellings. The only one that throws me is Lughnasad.

Yep, Well I have always heard Samhain pronounced, Sow-ihn. But they are all obscure and celtic anyway I like to stick with what I understand and call them the solctices and equinoxes.

I pronounce Imbolc like with a 'g' sound at the end. Am I just weird? lol