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?
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It’s pronounced jeh woo s in korean
Don’t know if it had anything to do with it but there also was Zzus as a player and you don’t want confusion with 2 pro players. A bit like why Closer had to change name because of Closer.
The correct pronunciation of the Greek god’s name is Ζεύς, “zeh-oos”
“zoos” is just an american distortion that doesn’t really make sense
There is no "correct’ pronunciation of anything lol, it’s all arbitrary. But get your “America bad!” comment in, very original and intelligent stuff.
If people have been calling him Zeus for about 5 thousand years and then someone says “Yeah whatever we’ll call him Zoos”, then maybe it’s not correct
Also, I don’t know about the English language, but my native language has strict and centralized rules so pronunciation can be unequivocally correct or not
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.
It wasn’t america that made the english language
Ew wtf i wish this was 10 seconds ago when I didn’t know that
Koreans pronounce it Juice, they couldn’t care less. Everything that fits into their alphabet
If he wants to go by the god of thunder then I think it should be Zoos, he wants it to be said zey-us, though… he should pick a lane so no one is confused tbh.
I think its because there was another Zeus on KT before pronounced Zoous and to differentiate they called the T1 Zeyus and i think thats how he pronounces it so the caster just stuck with it