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43. I agree with the Great Old One

Reply to SalmonChantedEvening (Original post)

Sun Apr 14, 2024, 03:39 PM

Apr 14

Lovecraft transcribed the pronunciation of Cthulhu as Khlûl?-hloo, and said, "the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The 'u' is about like that in 'full', and the first syllable is not unlike 'klul' in sound, hence the 'h' represents the guttural thickness"... S. T. Joshi points out, however, that Lovecraft gave different pronunciations on different occasions. According to Lovecraft, this is merely the closest that the human vocal apparatus can come to reproducing the syllables of an alien language. Cthulhu has also been spelled in many other ways, including Tulu, Katulu, and Kutulu.

Long after Lovecraft's death, Chaosium stated in the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game: "we say it kuh-THOOL-hu" (/kəˈ?uːluː/), even while noting that Lovecraft said it differently. Others use the pronunciation Katulu or Kutulu or /kəˈtuːluː/.

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