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How is is pronounced?
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LazarusLong
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How is is pronounced?

Acheron - how do you pronounce it?

Is it Ack-a-ron, or Achey-ron? Or something completely different?

Inquiring minds want to know! Smile
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Ehsan
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Acheron


A spoiler seemed fitting Wink

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SarKenobi
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Didn't I say in #uf to look in the dictionary? I always use the online dictionary cause it doesn't take up room or cost money. D00d.

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MageSteff
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the five rivers of Hades

Hey Dmax, this is just for you! Wink

There are five rivers of Hades

Acheron - river of sadness (or woe)

Cocytus - river of lamentation

Lethe - river of forgetfulness

Phlegethon - river of fire

Styx - river of hate
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jamesi
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And all this time, I was pronouncing it "ASH-er-ON". Oh well... I'll probably still pronounce it that way, just because I'm stubborn and stuff.
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Petbubble
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Stubborn as heck here too... ASH-ER-ON it shall be in my inner ear for ever more!!

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aliendial
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Doncha just hate it when your pronunciation of a name has been wrong for MONTHS before you find out what it should sound like? When it's a person there's no choice - gotta call him Octavis and erase that Octavius (real example, not quite on point, but excellent illustration) from the memory banks. But I'm sorry who's gonna know if I keep pronouning Acheron my own special way? Ashes, baby.
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neetie
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ash vs ack

as a matter of interest I spotted this

[quote]ACHERON was the name given to the planet also known as LV 426 in the original ALIEN FILM its one of my all time favorites - nothing deeper than that.

How do you say it ??

We the Brits pronounce it ( A - SHA - RON )

Where as the Americans pronounce it ( AK - ER - ON )[/quote]

at http://www.acheroncards.com/ looks like it could be a dialect thing! (phew - that means i can keep on calling it asheron!!)

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dashcat
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Ack! Ack! Acheron! Very Happy

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jayepmills
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hold your mouse over the Acheron logo on the home page.
someone is watching us.......
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Petbubble
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When I hold the mouse over the name & logo I get:

\Ach"e ron\, n. (Myth). A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.

Oooo-er....they probably know where I live & what I had for tea as well!

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Petbubble
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When I hold the mouse over the name & logo I get:

\Ach"e ron\, n. (Myth). A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.

Oooo-er....they probably know where I live & what I had for tea as well!

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