I’ve been saying “al-eh-corn” in my mental consciousness. Also “ee-vane”, which suggests my problem being less “Yvain is hard to pronounce” than “Yvain doesn’t look like the English I grew up speaking”.
Incidentally, I can’t remember how to pronounce Eliezer. I saw him say it at the beginning of a Bloggingheads video and it was completely different from my naive reading.
“Alicorn” is pronounced just like “unicorn”, except that the “yoon” is replaced with “al” as in “Albert” or “Alabama”. So the I is an “ih”, not an “eh”, but you can get away with an undifferentiated schwa.
I’ve been saying “al-eh-corn” in my mental consciousness. Also “ee-vane”, which suggests my problem being less “Yvain is hard to pronounce” than “Yvain doesn’t look like the English I grew up speaking”.
Incidentally, I can’t remember how to pronounce Eliezer. I saw him say it at the beginning of a Bloggingheads video and it was completely different from my naive reading.
“Alicorn” is pronounced just like “unicorn”, except that the “yoon” is replaced with “al” as in “Albert” or “Alabama”. So the I is an “ih”, not an “eh”, but you can get away with an undifferentiated schwa.
Thanks!
(I think that’s how I was saying it, actually—I wasn’t sure how to write the second syllable.)
ell-ee-EZZ-er (is how I hear it).