Mosk:
I was born in USA but my family is from Poland. I the the english letter w because in my brain its a ‘v’ sound. So how do you pronounce dawn I always want to say davi but im sure I am wrong
Why we are at it are there any other weird dwarf words that are hard to pronounce?
cornixt:
I’ve always gone for dar-wee.
nitroglysarine:
yeah i hear it in my head as Dar-Wee.
Mainly due to the Patron Saint of Wales being:- Dewi Sant (Eng:- Saint David) and you pronounce that as Dew -Wee.
Hashut’s Blessing:
Dawr-wee here. Mostly because Davi doesn’t seem right at all. A w that is pronounced as a v always seem to fit best after a consonent or at the start of a word, IMO. Also, the pronounciation of w as v seems to be Kislevian in nature. Khazalid uses guttural noises and hard sounds, whereas v doesn’t fit that. Most of the speech is middle to back of the mouth and throat, rather than ont he lips (like f and v).
Kered:
I pronounce it Dar-wii myself.
Thommy H:
Dah-wee. Not that complicated.
Blue in VT:
But where is the “R” sound coming from?
I’ve always heard it as Da-wee…YMMV
Blue
nitroglysarine:
Could be either da-wee, dah-wee or dar-wee I guess.
Maybe its regional variations in different areas ;D
Mosk:
I guess my slavic tongue screws me again 
To me, and just because I speak Polish at home, pronouncing a W as an English W is just weird. But I am also one of those kids who used to get made fun of in school cause I would sometimes slip up and say vritten instead of written. or vrite instead of write
And also where are you guys getting the R sound in Dar-wee? I understand if you are a slav, as the A generally makes kinda a Aaaarr (like almost a pirate arr but with a LOT less emphasis on the r) I guess and english short a. But if we werepronouncign it like that then to me Dar-vee sounds better to me, but another thing to keep in mind is a W in polish is not a very HARD v sound its a very short and almost not heard v sound.
Kered:
It’s a common difference in pronunciation between American and English. Notably words like path, I assume most american would pronounce it with a strong ‘a’ Pa-th where as I would pronounce it with an r sound Par-th.I not sure I’v explained it very well but hope it goes some way in explaining it.
The ‘r’ in it is just how I read it, but I think Thommy’s is the most likely pronunciation.
nitroglysarine:
It's a common difference in pronunciation between American and English. Notably words like path, I assume most american would pronounce it with a strong a Pa-th where as I would pronounce it with an r sound Par-th.I not sure I'v explained it very well but hope it goes some way in explaining it.Yup another good example is the word 'Bath'
Kered
Kered:
There will still always be regional/personal differences for instance I pronounce then both as 'barth'.It's a common difference in pronunciation between American and English. Notably words like path, I assume most american would pronounce it with a strong a Pa-th where as I would pronounce it with an r sound Par-th.I not sure I'v explained it very well but hope it goes some way in explaining it.Yup another good example is the word 'Bath'
Kered
I pronounce the place in the uk: Bath as 'Barth', but the place where you have a nice soak and clean as a 'baff'.
nitroglysarine
Hashut’s Blessing:
Actually, it’s not just American-English, it’s also North-South in England.
I’m odd in that I’m Southern, but instead of adding an r sound after the a in bath, path, grass, etc I add in an extra a. Not noticeably different to most people, but makes me sound unlike anyone fromt he same area as me, lol.
Anyway, my girlfriend is Northern and I’m Southern, so she says pah-th and I say paa-th (or par-th).
That’s where the “r” sound comes from. It’s the pronunciation of the letter a, rather than making an “r” apparent in the word 
nitroglysarine:
True, I'm from the Wales/England border around Oswestry, so my language is pretty mucked up anyhow!There will still always be regional/personal differences for instance I pronounce then both as 'barth'.It's a common difference in pronunciation between American and English. Notably words like path, I assume most american would pronounce it with a strong a Pa-th where as I would pronounce it with an r sound Par-th.I not sure I'v explained it very well but hope it goes some way in explaining it.Yup another good example is the word 'Bath'
Kered
I pronounce the place in the uk: Bath as 'Barth', but the place where you have a nice soak and clean as a 'baff'.
nitroglysarine
Kered
Kered:
I like that they are varying pronunciations and dialects, they make things interesting as long as we don’t start arguing about how to pronounce scone we’ll be all right.
nitroglysarine:
its fine its-cone anyway, I ate it 
snowblizz:
I guess my slavic tongue screws me again :)Can't be, as someone who is vested in both the Indoeuropean language group and the Fenno-ugrian one I'd also go for plain "davi".
Mosk
To me, and just because I speak Polish at home, pronouncing a W as an English W is just weird. But I am also one of those kids who used to get made fun of in school cause I would sometimes slip up and say vritten instead of written. or vrite instead of write :)Honestly, can't see the difference there. Of course this being text and all...
Mosk
And also where are you guys getting the R sound in Dar-wee? I understand if you are a slav, as the A generally makes kinda a Aaaarr (like almost a pirate arr but with a LOT less emphasis on the r) I guess and english short a. But if we werepronouncign it like that then to me Dar-vee sounds better to me, but another thing to keep in mind is a W in polish is not a very HARD v sound its a very short and almost not heard v sound.I was pretty much wondering that myself. There's no bloody "r" in there at all...
Mosk
cornixt:
I’m from Hertfordshire originally, so I do that with all my vowels, “a” words all lean towards “ar/ah”, like a pirate
Anonymouse:
Yarr. I mean: I’d say ‘Dah-wee.’
warh:
I say Dav-ih Zharrrrrr, someting like that