How do you pronounce Submariner?

[Theagenes]

Sailers on submariners usually pronounce it "sub-mah-REEN-er" but in comic circles I've always heard it pronounced "sub-MARE-iner." Which is correct?

 

 

[zuckuss2003]

Listen for yourself - I'll go with Merriam-Webster

[nmtg9]

I think its sub-MAR-in-ER. so i went for crack

[Theagenes]

Listen for yourself - I'll go with Merriam-Webster

 

That's for "mariner" not "submariner" though.

 

Submariner

 

[jools&jim]

 

According to Steranko (quoting Bill Everett) in his "History of Comics", the character's name was inspired by Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

 

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"I recalled these lines from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

 

'The sun came up upon he left,

Out of the sea came he!

And he shone bright, and on the right

Went down into the sea.'

 

I called him the Sub-Mariner after the poem and for the name Namor, I simply spelled 'Roman' backwards."

 

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So the character's creator quite likely pronounced it "sub-mer-ə-nər".

[Ghost Town]

I read somewhere that Bill Everett hyphenated the spelling (Sub-Mariner) so that people would pronounce it like the sailor, not the submerged warship.

 

Which only leaves us with Magneto to worry about.

[joe_collector]

I always thought it was in reference to the armed forced Sub-mariners, but when I heard Stan Lee talk about the character, he always calls him a Sub-mar-EEE-ner, as in Submarine -- er.

[DrWatson]

I read somewhere that Bill Everett hyphenated the spelling (Sub-Mariner) so that people would pronounce it like the sailor, not the submerged warship.

 

Which only leaves us with Magneto to worry about.

Mag-knee-toe

[Flemmings]

I used to say it like this sub-mah-REEN-er because I also thought it had something to do with the armed forces. Go Air Force!!!!!!!!!

 

Now I say it like this sub-MARE-iner because I got tired of people correcting me.

 

 

 

 

[TupennyConan]

Subby.

[Flemmings]

I read somewhere that Bill Everett hyphenated the spelling (Sub-Mariner) so that people would pronounce it like the sailor, not the submerged warship.

 

Which only leaves us with Magneto to worry about.

 

How many different ways are there to say Magneto?

[DrWatson]

I read somewhere that Bill Everett hyphenated the spelling (Sub-Mariner) so that people would pronounce it like the sailor, not the submerged warship.

 

Which only leaves us with Magneto to worry about.

 

How many different ways are there to say Magneto?

Mag-knee-toe

 

Mag-net-toe

[Ghost Town]

I read somewhere that Bill Everett hyphenated the spelling (Sub-Mariner) so that people would pronounce it like the sailor, not the submerged warship.

 

Which only leaves us with Magneto to worry about.

 

How many different ways are there to say Magneto?

I've heard Mag-knee-toe and Mag-net-o.

 

Personally, I prefer Mag-knee-toe. I figure if it was good enough for Paul McCartney...

[delekkerste]

sub-MARE-iner (thumbs u

[Theagenes]

Subby.

 

 

[DrWatson]

The only people I have met that pronoun it "sub-mah-REEN-er" have been Canadian.

[namisgr]

The Submariner is easy. What we really want to know is:

 

How do you pronounce Theagenes?

[MutantKeys]

How do you pronounce namisgr? Been wondering for years

[namisgr]

How do you pronounce namisgr? Been wondering for years

 

I haven't a clue.

 

It's my name spelled backwards, and makes life for this old codger easier on these boards in a world of ATM pins, home e-mail names and passwords, work e-mail names and passwords, work site access names and passwords, mutual fund site names and passwords, E-bay names and passwords, brokerage site names and passwords, consignment site names and passwords, X-Box 360 online names and passwords, computer security names and passwords, laboratory computer names and passwords, poker forum names and passwords, investment forum names and passwords, National Institutes of Health commons names and passwords, Elsevier publishing house names and passwords, online legal site names and passwords, etc, etc, etc.

 

Only the truly important sites are reserved for unique names and passwords.

[Doc Joe]

So your real name is . . . . Rgsiman ?