Didyme is a name that bugged me. I found a site of Roman names and as far as I can tell it is pronounced Dee-DEE-May, Dee-DUH-May, Did-UH-May, Did-EE-May

i = short as in "pit", or long as in "pizza". When used as a consonant, = Y

The E at the end would be pronounce as AY

Ave = AH-way
Salve = SAHL-way
Vale = WAH-lay

It also says that 'J' (Which is not used in proper Latin) -represents consonantal i and is pronounced as Y. Which leads me to believe that 'Y' is pronounced as an ee as in "Mary". (Didyme = Dee-DEE-May)

Here's the link if you wanna tough it out yourselves.

http://legvi.tripod.com/id36.h...

Siobhan -- "Shi-vawn"
Nahuel -- "Nah-well" (there is a national park named after that and it tells you how to pronounce it)
Huilen -- "whee-len"
Didyme -- the pronunciation for "didymous" in the dictionary is "did-uh-muh" so i would say the prounciation for "Didyme" is "did-uh-mee"

i think i'm the oniy one in my class that can pronounca carlisle wright!!?? everyone else calls him char-lise instead of carlisle!! the lisle part i get but the beginigs arnt close!!!!

ugh! its toatally killing me that breaking dawn eclipse isnt out yet!!!! none of my friends really care! am i the onily one that cant wait!!!!! i hope caius has more to say in eclipse i am toatally in love with him!!! the onily problem i've had with names is rosalie i thought in twilight they pronounced it rosalite!!!! am i the onily one who thought that, because i haddent read the books when i saw the movie!!!

Renesmee seemed to be pretty easy to pronounce for me. Perhaps I'm wrong, but is it not "Renn-EHS-may"?
That is, Esme and Renee smooshed together, therefore the double-e sound would replicate those of Esme and Renee?
I guess, if you were being really particular, there should be an acute above the first e after the m. However, I'm on a laptop and there is no number pad :P I can't to the alt+130.

Do we agree, or am I wrong? Let me know! ^^

On another note, I was going to explain how I'd mispronounced Caius, but with my Kiwi accent, there really is no way to phonetically spell out how I did it XP Silly accents.

I'm Welsh, and the only things I can't say are most of the new vampire's in Breaking Dawn :P

ok how in the world do you say caius?????? i love that guy but i dont know how to say his name!!!! i've onily seen the movie twice and i'm almost pasitive they dont say his name!!!!!!!!!

I do believe it's "KAY-uhs".

IM REALLY GOOD WITH ALOT OF THESE NAMES BECAUSE FOR EXSAMPLE LAURANT IS A FRENCH NAME AND IM HALF FRENCH HALF NEW ZEALANDER SO YEAH

I had most of the names pretty close to correct. But I was SOOOO far off on Carlisle. I have never seen this name before and had no idea. So in my mind while reading the books back in 2007 I pronounced it Car-lis-l haha!! Wow, its so much better now knowing the correct pronunciation.

my mom has informed me that siobhan is actually pronounced shi-von.
weird right? i kept saying sio-ban.

im korean so the names.... yeah.
Aro --> arrow
Nahuel --> nah-hue-elle

and gotta say that Breaking Dawn has some challenging names =D

Siobhan is 'Sha-Vawn'
And I always say 'Renesmee as Ren-ez-may'

Is Quileute pronounced 'Quee-ay' or something like that?

I found this today:

37. [kwoh-LAY-yoh-t!] “Quileute”

They do have how it is spelled in Quileute text, but it won't show up unless you have the font XP Take a look at the link down there.

Which is on this: http://www.quileutenation.org/...
Which is part of the Quileute Nation site. It's quite interesting. Their history etc is on there.

Myself, I pronounced it "KWIL-e-Yoot". There is another way of spelling it, which is closer to the pronunciation. That is "Quillayute", which is the name of a river near La Push.
I, uhm, have nothing to do but research sometimes XP What a boring life I lead.. haha.

i knew how to pronouce most of them, just didyme that confused me but i just pronounce it how its spelt like did-i-mee. and theres a place in england called carlisle so i was fine with that, its car-lyle. oh and quileute i gave up and just call em quil-ett. xD.

I said pronounced the Voturi like Volchuri. I have no clue why though.
And I pronounce Aro like Arrow.
I had Carlisle right becasue I asked my dad how to say it.... hahaha.
Haha I dont know how to say barely any of the vampires that come in the fourth book for Renesmee. :)
Speaking of Renesmeee. Isnt it Ren-ezz-may?

ugh, the words Quileute, Caius, Aro, Renesmee, Nahuiel (or whatever it is) bug me.
me and my friends have like arguments about it, its really sad :)

I only knew how to pronounce Laurent because a few summers ago I spent some time in France and the street my hotel was on was called "Rue Saint Laurent" ... at first I really butchered it, I had to learn how to pronounce it right so the cab drivers would understand me! haha!

I've always pronounced Laurent correctly, probably because I'm from Canada and we're forced to learn French every year in school :), and also because it's a very obvious French name.

i always said caius as case- ee- us (casius) even though i knew it wasn't right :P

one im possitive about is "Siobhan." My friends sister has that name, and its pronounced "Shivon" but its spelled funny.

Since all the vampires names come from a long time ago, u dont have to think of them in the modern English way to pronounce it. Like "Irina" for example.

I think the name Irina comes from Russia so it should be pronounced as so the "i"s sounding like English "e" and a rolled -r- and all the other names have Latin origins for the most part.

Even if English language and people do have a tendency (like French ...) to make them sound more English-like I think we should pronounce them in their original way since some of them were born long long time ago (in the book). It works for Rosalie, Alice, Carmen, Irina, Laurent, Benjamin ...

I can help with some names. I speak Spanish because I'm from Argentina, so the names like Nahuel are totally common.
It sounds like " 'Na-wel ". It's a very pretty name actually :)
And Aro is also latin, as I suppose it comes from ancient Rome xD I think it's more likely to be pronounce "R-O" instead of "Arrow", but it's very difficult to say, because latin R is absolutely different from your R . The tongue is right behind the teeth. I'm not an expert in phonetics, but I think it will help http://education.yahoo.com/ref... there you have the pronunciation. Don't pay attention to the meaning, Aro is not only a name xD

Carlisle was not so difficult, but before the film I pronounced it like Carl-isle, with an extra L at the end XD and Laurent... well, let's not talk about that xD
Sioban is LOVELY! ♥ and Didyme... I just call her Dee-dee-may :S

But the problem stated with all the covens spread all around the world . Names like Kachiri, Eleazar I just pronounce them like they are written, but with Spanish accent. The most easy from the "difficult ones" would be Irina. It's like EE-REE-NAH (like A in UP)
And Renesmee, well.. ._. we have a problem here. But it's explain in BD, I mean,just call her Ruh-nez-may. I don't think it's really difficult /:

I'm 99.9% sure Aro is well pronounce just as "Marcus" (don't know the name of the actor) says in New Moon. "You know what you'll do Aro"
I surprised me, I was expecting something like "Arrow" from Americans, but that man did really well!

I can help with some names. I speak Spanish because I'm from Argentina, so the names like Nahuel are totally common.
It sounds like " 'Na-wel ". It's a very pretty name actually :)
And Aro is also latin, as I suppose it comes from ancient Rome xD I think it's more likely to be pronounce "R-O" instead of "Arrow", but it's very difficult to say, because latin R is absolutely different from your R . The tongue is right behind the teeth. I'm not an expert in phonetics, but I think it will help http://education.yahoo.com/ref... there you have the pronunciation. Don't pay attention to the meaning, Aro is not only a name xD

Carlisle was not so difficult, but before the film I pronounced it like Carl-isle, with an extra L at the end XD and Laurent... well, let's not talk about that xD
Sioban is LOVELY! ♥ and Didyme... I just call her Dee-dee-may :S

But the problem stated with all the covens spread all around the world . Names like Kachiri, Eleazar I just pronounce them like they are written, but with Spanish accent. The most easy from the "difficult ones" would be Irina. It's like EE-REE-NAH (like A in UP)
And Renesmee, well.. ._. we have a problem here. But it's explain in BD, I mean,just call her Ruh-nez-may. I don't think it's really difficult /: