How do you say Melee?

[Dfskelleton]

May-Lay is how I say it.

 

[bob1052]

I recognize May-Lay as correct and call it but I still call it May-Lee half the time.

 

[MisterM2402]

SUPER SMASH BRRROTHERS MELEEEEEEE!

It's a French word, so it IS may-lay. The British pronunciation is NOT mee-lee - never heard *anybody* say that ever.

I used to say Me Lee also until someone told me the correct pronunciation.

ITS FRENCH: mêlée is the actual spelling. So the correct way to say it grammatically is may-lay

Do you also say Pari for Paris and Koln for Cologne? We won the battle Waterloo I will pronounce it the English way. Now pass me my cigarette case, its the one with two crossed dead Frenchmen with the background of dead Frenchmen on the lid.

It's OK to pronounce things as the native speakers do - you wouldn't ignore the umlaut over the 'i' in 'naive' and pronounce it like 'knave' or 'knive', would you? And yes, that's supposed to be the wrong spelling of 'knife'. You wouldn't pronounce 'Camembert' with a hard 'T' at the end, would you? It just depends on what's accepted as the correct pronunciation and in this case it's 'may-lay'.

P.S. 'Foie gras', 'mardi gras', 'Grand Prix', 'nouvelle cuisine', 'Cote d'Ivoire', 'gourmand', 'gourmet', 'l'Arc de Triomphe', 'le Tricolore', 'Nice (the place)', 'champagne', 'Roquefort', 'a la carte', 'carte blanche', 'm'aider! (written as 'may-day'), 'au contraire', 'femme fatale', 'genre', 'bon voyage'....
I'll stop now....

 

[dslatch]

May-lay, mainly cuz it pisses off this guy I know.

 

[TeeBs]

The way the guy says in on Super Smash Bros Melee
So MayLay

 

[Plurralbles]

Meh-Lay. That's how it's supposed to be pronounced. If you pronounce it another way you're either stupid or American.

... ... ... I always thought that as soon as Super Smash Bros Melee was out after a year even "Americans" knew how to correctly say it.

 

[trooper6]

MAY-lay

 

[omega 616]

In this case, as with most cases (which does in fact include the word knife) say what you see, "me-lee". No my name is not lee, it's just how I say it.

Escapist, I have never had trouble reading these capthcas but latley, they have been getting really hard to read! Was the bot problem ever really that bad! I never saw more than 1 a month, although I am only ever in gaming and off topic.

 

[katsumoto03]

May-lay because I enjoy pronouncing words properly...


What? I do!

 

[Eumersian]

May-lay. That's what it always has been. Was never entirely sure of the etymology, but it sounds perhaps French. Besides, mee-lee just sounds silly.

 

[jackknife402]

I say both, depending on my mood.

 

[Shellsh0cker]

Both ways are correct. U.S. English say May-Lay. U.K. English say Me-Lee.

See: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/melee

I'm British and I say may-lay
Also may-lay, I'm pretty sure, is correct, if we're talking about pronouncing it the way the French do, because it's spelled 'mélée' and the accents over the e makes an 'ay' sound

I used to say Me Lee also until someone told me the correct pronunciation.

ITS FRENCH: mêlée is the actual spelling. So the correct way to say it grammatically is may-lay

I'm rather surprised that it took this long for this to be mentioned. So yeah, "may-lay."

 

[MikeOfThunder]

Used to say 'Meal-ay'
Now I say 'Mel-ay'

 

[Qizx]

May-lay was how I was taught to pronounce it so that's how I shall pronounce it until I am proven wrong!

 

[GrandmaFunk]

I used to say Me Lee also until someone told me the correct pronunciation.

ITS FRENCH: mêlée is the actual spelling. So the correct way to say it grammatically is may-lay

I'm francophone and I pronounced it "me-lee" in English.

but then I tend to pronounce all french words in English as English words...otherwise non-francophones don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.


ps: the french pronunciation does NOT sound like "may-lay" but rather "meh-lay"

 

[DustyDrB]

May Lay is how I say it.

 

[xqxm]

May-lay.

That's how Guybrush said it.

 

[Berserker119]

I used to say mee-lee, until SSBM came out. Now it's may-lay.

 

[Chris646]

I personally pronounce it "MAY-lay" but everyone is entitled to their own thing.