HOW TO PRONOUNCE DREUGH WAX?

VvwvenomwvV

Hello people.

I have heard people pronounce Dreugh wax many different ways over the years.

Some examples are: Dro-wax. Draw-wax. Dreu-wax. Dree-ugh-wax. Dre-ugh wax.

I've always called it Dre-ugh wax. There are Dreugh creatures in the game. They have the same spelling as the crafting material.

There are numerous times an npc pronounces Dreugh as "Dre-ugh".

How do you pronounce it?

I'll post a video on the npc dialogs.

https://youtu.be/TUnnc8WgdvU

Calastir

Dreughs are bad, m'kay?

That's how I pronounce it.

CameraBeardThePirate

Dreugh is pronounced "Dreg", or at least, it is in most past TES content.

TES is such a big franchise (and ESO has so many voicelines) that you're bound to find mispronunciations.

I'm not even gonna go into the guy that claims to be the Nerevarine in Vvardenfell but can't even pronounce it correctly

Gwahiir

There's no need to use all caps on the title like that

Jack-0

Oh there’s an npc whose voice actor must have been given a script with a typo in it as he always pronounces daedric as ‘dey-ah-drick’ instead of the correct ‘deydrick’.

For dreugh, I pronounce it ‘drewg’ as in the second syllable of Andrew, with a g on the end.

Marcus684

"Bill-ees" wax

RicAlmighty

It's "Dreg", the enemy of the same name is said in the game 100 times.

VvwvenomwvV

Let's just call it "earwax" 😆

NordSwordnBoard

Gwahiir wrote: »

There's no need to use all caps on the title like that

Shouting reaches people farther away, and can drag in more people to further discuss the dreugh.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

I used to pronounce it ‘droog’, but according to ESO it’s pronounced ‘dreg’ as others have mentioned.

WNAPosadzkib16_ESO

The English language has so many "exceptions to the rule".
Until it's rationali(z or s)ed, you're gonna be wrong. Some one (not one word!) will take exception.

Grizzbeorn

Droog.

CameraBeardThePirate

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

Droog.

Incorrect.

WNAPosadzkib16_ESO

Drew.
as in Hugh.

rpa

dRek vaks with trill r. Cause not a native speaker.

virtus753

The devs once said live on stream the official pronunciation was droo/drew. They then proceeded to say it at least three different ways, and I think four can be heard in ESO.

So…however you like.

Dr_Con

like all words spoken, especially in a global community, pronunciation means little so long as the other party knows what you are referring to.

Sir_Gentleman777

Dreugh like in Drew Barrymore.

But quite honestly, english pronounciation is a mess. Do you call your Wifi Router now Router as in Route66 (with an r at the end of course) or do you call it Root(er) like the superuser on Linux UNIX Systems? Do you say dance with an open a (as in british pronounciation) or like an american a? And why is "spouse" pronaunced with an au while "course" with an ou? Or why do brits sometimes use the open a and sometimes the american a? English pronounciation simply doesn't make sense sometimes. And i am not even talking about regional accents, but about entire nations that all claim to speak english.

People always say german is hard to learn, but we have extremely clear rules on how words are pronounced. Once you learned this (also really easy) system, you can pronounce any german word, even if you never heard it before. The only thing in german, that is not clear, is the Ch as in Chemie (chemistry) or China. Some pronounce the Ch as a k, some as a broader sh as in the english word sh*t . But then again, this is more a regional difference, in the south it is more the k sound, towards the north it is the sh sound.

virtus753

Sir_Gentleman777 wrote: »

But quite honestly, english pronounciation is a mess. Do you call your Wifi Router now Router as in Route66 (with an r at the end of course)

To underscore your point: Ask many east coasters how Route 1 is pronounced and you’ll hear “root.”

menedhyn

Dreg.

irswat

Dreg according to in game voice overs

KattyJaxx

Dreg

i11ionward

VvwvenomwvV wrote: »

Hello people.

I have heard people pronounce Dreugh wax many different ways over the years.

Some examples are: Dro-wax. Draw-wax. Dreu-wax. Dree-ugh-wax. Dre-ugh wax.

I've always called it Dre-ugh wax. There are Dreugh creatures in the game. They have the same spelling as the crafting material.

There are numerous times an npc pronounces Dreugh as "Dre-ugh".

How do you pronounce it?

I'll post a video on the npc dialogs.

https://youtu.be/TUnnc8WgdvU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkJNstaog8

EnerG

Just like real life, things can have diffrent pronunciations based on region, dreg or drew are both said. As well as various others across the mainline games.

ArchMikem

Go to a Quest area that involve Dreugh, and listen to the voice actors say it.

Its "dreg".

alternatelder

For the first 5 years of playing I always thought it was pronounced "drow" (not like brow, but more like drew), I've heard the NPCs say dreg, and later learned it was actually pronounced dreg, but I can't get away from calling it drow wax.

Quackery

It's pronounced "Dreg" like "Beg". That's the way the npc's pronounce it too and it's the only correct way.

VvwvenomwvV

ArchMikem wrote: »

Go to a Quest area that involve Dreugh, and listen to the voice actors say it.

Its "dreg".

Agreed.

I have about 25 instances in the the video I linked that has non player characters pronouncing it "Dre-ugh."

Kinda like Dr. Dre + Ugh = Dreugh 🤣

Arawin

It's dr err wax

TybaltKaine

Greg's Dreugh Wax. Easy way to remember it.

AlwaysDancing

TybaltKaine wrote: »

Greg's Dreugh Wax. Easy way to remember it.

Why not Reg's Dreugh Wax?