How would you pronounce Auri?

[ItchyFoot]

Just that really. How would you pronounce it?

Wasn't Patrick Swayze's character in trashtastic North and South called Auri?

Ah, apparently he was called Orry.

It's from The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Ow-ree

Finnish male name, eg, the filmmaker auri karismaki. Pronounced ow-ri

I'm wrong! Aki kaurismaki. As you were...

It's ay urr ee in the audio book. Loved that name when I heard it.

I'd rhyme Auri with story.

squoosh yes Orry Main but it sounds like Auri in a drawly southern accent.

Ow-ree. I have dim memories of reading a Latin text where various things were 'auri plena' - full of gold. Not a bad association!

I like that book. I always thought it was pronounced Orr-ree.

Kvothe on the other hand - no idea!

Isn't Kvothe pronounced Ku vo th? Can't wait for the last book in the trilogy.

I'd pronounce it like story but softer (like Audrey but without the 'dr' in the middle). It's my only bugbear about fantasy when they make names up and then provide unlikely pronunciation guides. Which I ignore

Have you all read the novella about Auri? It's lovely, sad but sort of right. Great title too - The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Like story also. I've read the book and think it's a pretty name. I would totally ignore his pronunciation because frankly I think he's talking shit. what would he know? Being the author and everything

I have a signed copy of The Slow Regard Of Silent Things nooka

Ow-re
Or O-ri like in orinoco