Veil : Pronunciation

[Ashleg]

As straightforward as it sounds.
His name is rhymed with "evil" and "vile", so I just want to hear what ya think.

[Jetthebinturong]

Nah, it's not rhymed. It's pronounced Vail, there is literally no doubt of that.

[The Skarzs]

Poems tend to bend the pronunciation of words.
I think it was more that those words all use the same letters.

Kind of messed up to give him a name like that at birth.

[Jetthebinturong]

Poems don't have to rhyme, they just need to have the correct number of syllables. There's no reason to think that the word Veil in that poem is pronounced any differently than it should be.

[Ashleg]

I've been thinking him Veel for three years.

[MeadowR]

I'm pretty sure it's Veil like 'vale/vail' - his true self is veiled from many!

I probably called him 'Veel' in my mind when I first read the book. And maybe again. Because sometimes I have trouble/I forget how to pronounce things properly. My mind wants to automatically see it as 'veel' and then it has to check itself to remind that it is most likely as the masked word is, 'vail'.

[Andy]

I always pronounced it like "vail" myself.

[Ashleg]

I call him Veel and I'm not ashamed.

[LordTBT]

The audiobook can reveal the correct way.

[Ashleg]

But they're Brotish.

[Jetthebinturong]

There is literally only one way to pronounce this word.

I don't understand.

[Ashleg]

Apparently there's another person that pronounces it how I do and someone else who says it in a completely different way.
It's a character name, and those may be pronounced in a multitude of ways.

[Jetthebinturong]

Bella called him Veil because his true nature was a mystery to her. It was veiled. As in hidden, or shrouded. Veil. Like a bride wears.

[Ashleg]

But then they rhymed it. With evil.

[The Skarzs]

"Give him a name, and leave him awhile,
Veil may live to be evil and vile,
Though I hope my prediction will fail,
And evil so vile will not live in Veil."