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Not to start a po-tay-to/po-tah-to debate, but... :)

When I read King Ottokar's Sceptre as a kid (my first exposure to the vibrant kingdom of Syldavia), the word was always pronounced "Syl-dah-via" in my mind, much like Moldavia.

In the Ellipse-Nelvana series, I noticed that the English translators -- who massacre a lot of foreign names in the series, so they're hardly an authority -- went with "Syl-day-via."

Obviously it's unambiguous in the original French, "Syldavie."

So how did everyone else envision the name of this country?

Syl-day-via for me.

It's Syl-DAH-via for me. :)

I'll put up a new poll on our home page to collect people's responses to Jryki's question.
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Edit: the new poll is up! :D

It's always been Syl-day-via in my head too.

(tech++tech++ I just voted for this on the poll but it hasn't showed up... I'm using Safari..)

Best - G.

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Always went with DAY myself, but the current poll says differently

Rik

Syl-day-via - much like Moldavia ;)

Definitely Syl-day-via for me too

DAY via for me as well..didnt think twice about that till now :)

I think, as Syl-dah-via is meant to be an east-european country, like the baltics, Czechia, Slovak Rep. it would be pronounced with the dah - to use the slavic-language-style (Slovakian, Czech, Russian)
like Slo-Vah-Kia, or is there anyone calling this country Slo-Vay-Kia??

Syl-dah-via.

But then, English isn't my first language, and my grandparents were from Yugoslavia, and they always referred to it as 'yu-gos-lah-via', so I took after them.