Pronunciations:
Maybe it's a good idea for us to have a resource for how to pronounce each of the card names. I played some games recently where people pronounced things strangely -- some I was OK with, but the one that gets me every time is Golem.
People always say it like the Lord of the Rings character Gollum, like "GAH-lum" where I've only known the correct way to say the word to be "GOAL-um" or maybe "GO-lum". It hits the same chord with me as when people call a clownfish a "Nemo fish."
Anyways, I know most of them are trivial, like Feast. But several are rather unique words that I certainly didn't know before Dominion. I'll list a few here, and maybe if it's a good idea we could compile a list of all cards and their pronunciations (or at least all the weird ones).
Golem -- "GOAL-um" or "GO-lum" . NOT LotR Character Gollum, "GAH-lum"
Mountebank -- is it "MOUNT-uh-bank" or "MONT-uh-bank" or "MONT-uh-bonk"?
Feodum -- Was it "FEE-uh-dum" or "FAY-uh-dum" or "FAY-oh-dum"? [after scouring F.DS for the answer, I think the second option was mentioned to be correct?]
Hovel -- "HUH-vill" or "HAH-vill" or maybe "ho-VELL"? [Google gives me either of the first two as being correct]
Wharf -- "Worf" or "Hworf"?
I always enjoy saying Duchy like "Dukey", and when Dukes are in the game I say them exactly the same way for maximum confusion, and more opportunities to tell someone they're "taking a dukey." Go ahead, judge me on my maturity, I deserve it.
Plurals:
I realize Isotropic is a wonderful resource for this, but it won't be around forever, and even though I haven't looked very hard for it, I haven't seen any plural card names on the Goko version. Also, if there are weird pronunciation issues with the regular names, maybe there are for the plurals as well: Oases - comes to mind, "oh-AY-sees"
Feoda - soo... how do we pronounce this? "FAY-uh-duh"? That doesn't seem right...
Feodums - "FAY-uh-dums"
Fool's Golds
Singular card names that are plural: Nobles, Gardens, Smugglers, Rats, Spoils, Survivors, Ruins, Ironworks or Goons - umm, what do we do here? (Nobleses, Gardenses, Smugglerses, Ratses, Spoilses, Survivorses, Ruinses, Ironworkses, Goonses) and/or (Nobles, Gardens, Smugglers, Rats, Spoils, Survivors, Ruins, Ironworks, Goons)?