The apostrophe in Farfetch’d confused a lot of children, leading some to pronounce its name “FAR-fetch-DEE.” Farfetch’d didn’t make an appearance in the anime until the end of the first season on the episode “So Near, Yet So Farfetch’d” where it said its name with the intended pronunciation: “FAR-fetched.” Mankey is commonly referred to as both “MAN-kee” “MANK-ee.” The anime episode “Primeape Goes Bananas” sticks to the “MAN-kee” pronunciation, so that’s the one we’re going with. This mispronunciation here is slight, and could perhaps even be attributed to certain local dialects. In the very first episode of the Pokémon anime, Ash uses his Pokédex on the purple mouse creature which pronounces its name “RAT-tuh-TAH.” Again, the Pokérap leads to inconsistencies, pronouncing it “ruh-TAT-tuh.” Again, we discredit the Pokérap and consider the correct pronunciation to be the one used in Ash’s Pokédex. This is perhaps the most infamous and debated Pokémon name pronunciations. Given that the Pokérap also mispronounces a number of Pokémon including Venusaur, “pid-JEE-ot” seems to be the general consensus. However, some trainers refer to it as “PID-jit.” There are many reasons for the discrepancy, one of which is the Pokérap from the original anime which used the latter pronunciation.
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Most Pokémon Trainers pronounce Pidgeot “pid-JEE-ot,” following the trend from its first two forms: Pidgey and Pidgeotto. To help out, we reviewed the Pokémon anime to find the correct pronunciation for 20 often mispronounced monsters. With over 800 monsters, there are quite a few with confusing names. In some instances, they are saying the names incorrectly.
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Many trainers only know Pokémon from the games they appear in.