Pen-drak-en or Pen-drake-n?

[Leon]

After noticing a different pronunciation in a different thread, I was curious how people pronounce our name?  We've always called ourselves Pen-drak-en, with an 'ak' sound, but I've noticed some folk go with Pen-drake-n, to rhyme with taken.

[Nosher]

As in taken... sorry!

[Fenton]

How does Dave say it?

Whichever way it is , it is probably worth 8000 votes

[Luddite]

It should be Pen'drak'en.  However, I've sort of evolved to say Ped'drake'en, mostly to stop myself saying PendraGon...  

[Fenton]

The odd time I  still say Pendragon

[WeeWars]

Pen-drak-en

Was Dave originally inspired by the family surname?

[Leon]

Was Dave originally inspired by the family surname?

Yeah, he'd read somewhere years ago, that if your family name was incorporated into your business name, it gave you a stronger legal standing if there was ever a clash with another company over names.

[mollinary]

Pendr-Aachen. As in Pendr-Aix-la-Chapelle  

Mollinary

[Techno]

Pen - Drack - En.

Always been the 'ACK' version to me.
Cheers - Phil.

[get2grips]

I thought it was only me who used the "it's for (insert name) excuse".  Hope the Mrs isn't reading this 

Pen-Drack-En for me.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Pen-drak-en

But seeing as your from the north east, the loyal readers of Viz would know it's Pend-raa-ken?

[OldenBUA]

 

[petercooman]

Pen-drake-n here.

It's how my collegue said your name when he told me about your WW2 line and i just said it the same way.

[fsn]

Was it not that in the years long ago, King Uther begat a son with a serving wench. The son proved to be an idiot and so Uther ordered Merlin to take the child from his sight. Merlin, whose first thought was take the child swimming with stone water wings, felt even his lead heart be touched by the large dark eyes of the twisted creature, the merry burbling, the adorable foot-chewing, and so after changing his slobber-sodden robe once again, the old wizard set forth to journey to the darkest Cymric mountains and there deposited the child with an honest, but frankly incredibly stupid family of slag makers.

The child grew up, a beautiful, saturnine creature, lacking in common wits, but with some measure of animal cunning. When the child was old enough his foster father Dhaff introduced him to the tricky art of slag making, but the wretch was unable to grasp the admittedly simple intricacies of the tasks he was given, so Dhaff set him to playing with the waste product, the molten metal that so bedeviled good Welsh slag makers.

Eventually, the child began to fashion crude figures of animals and people from the cooling waste and as he got older eked out a poor existence selling his rude sculptures to the ignorant peasants. As he got older, he made representations of his neighbours and their hovels, but would never, ever dare to represent the local officials, who traced their role back to the sub-officers from the days of the Roman occupation.

Dhaff, under the influence of the local ale, could not hold his tongue and told anyone who would listen about how Merlin had entrusted him with the bastard son of the great king. The locals, whose IQ rarely exceeded that of their flocks, nicknamed the idiot child after the great king's family. The locals modified the name to fit their barbaric pronunciation so the son of Uther Pendragon was known as "Slag-waste Pendraken".

This then was the forbear of the Darker Lord and the Dark Lord. They still hark to the days of their less than illustrious antecedent who was too stupid to make slag, and so carved out a living with figurines cast from metal.  

[petercooman]

lol, just ..... LOL!!