Im just confuse as a non-native english speaker because growing up and familiarizing myself with the Greek Mythology, it was always pronounced as /zoos/ but casters pronounce it as /zey-yus/. So im wondering how should the greek/top-lane god’s name be pronounced?

  • Single-Direction-197BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If people have been calling him Zeus for about 5 thousand years

    Again this is just factually wrong. Someone has already pointed out that Russian has a different pronunciation. I just checked random languages and found a bunch of different pronunciations lol, like ‘seifur’ in Icelandic, or ‘Zhòusī’ in Chinese. Even the ones that use the same word (Zeus) have different pronunciations, for example in German it sounds more like “Zois”.

    then someone says “Yeah whatever we’ll call him Zoos”, then maybe it’s not correct

    Why lol? Pronunciation changes over time, that’s how language works, there’s no divine being telling us the “correct” way to say anything.

    but my native language has strict and centralized rules so pronunciation can be unequivocally correct or not

    Arbitrary rules made up by someone that have likely not always been followed and definitely will not always be followed.