Unclear Description: No Pronunciation Guide

No Pronunciation Guide is used for multiple different ideas at once, as shown by the wick check:

• Written works that don't indicate the pronunciation of something where the spelling leaves it ambiguous.
• Work that pronounce the same thing differently at different times.
• A dub pronounces something differently from its source language.
• The audience is unsure how to pronounce something (Viewer Pronunciation Confusion);
• An adaptation pronounces something differently from its source material (Adaptation Name Change).

Proposing a disambiguation.

• Characters.Sonic The Hedgehog Groups: Sometimes it's simply pronounced "gun" and other times it's pronounced "Gee-You-En".
• Film.Night Of The Bloody Apes: Dr. Krallman's dub actor seems to have a bit of difficulty agreeing on the pronunciation of Julio's name. Sometimes he will pronounce it correctly, and at other times he will pronounce it as "Giulio".
• Characters.Kirby King Dedede: Is it "dee-dee-dee" or "day-day-day"? Seems to depend mostly on region. Most English-speaking territories use the former; Japan as well as Italian-, French-, and Spanish-speaking countries use the latter. It seems both are correct, because the announcer of Super Smash Bros. Brawl pronounces his name both ways depending on your game's region. Additionally, if the crowd begins chanting his name, they'll alternate between the pronunciations.
• Characters.Overwatch Support: It's not entirely clear whether the "P" is pronounced in Baptiste's name. Jeff Kaplan did not pronounce the P during a Developer Update, as you would in French. However, Baptiste's English voice actor Benz Antoine has stated that he switches between pronouncing it and not depending on when he's speaking English or Haitian Creole respectively, since it would be voiced in the latter. To further muddy the waters, there are some versions of the game (Japanese and French among them) in which it is never pronounced.
• Characters.Baldurs Gate Other Party Members: None of the voice actors so much as tries to say Xzar's name out loud. Even Montaron only calls him 'the mad wizard'. Uh... (another example for this work is under the "Viewer pronunciation trouble" folder)
• VideoGame.Pokemon Stadium: The announcer is infamous for having rather... unusual pronounciations of the Pokémon's names:
  • "OH! It's Niddorun Male!"
  • "OH! It's Eekins!"
  • "OH! It's Raychu!"
  • "OH! It's Pidgot!"
  • "OH! It's Grow-ithe!"
• Characters.Fairy Tale Celestial Spirits: The normal English pronunciation is "SEE-lum", and yet the Japanese and English versions pronounce its name as "KYE-lum"
• Characters.Splinter City: Aislinn is typically pronounced "Ash-lynn," but Adonis's lisp means her name is pronounced differently from time to time. Likewise, Arien is pronounced closer to à rien instead of the more common air-ee-ehn, though according to their artist this was on purpose.
• ComicBook.Doctor Strange: As a result, the pronunciation of names such as 'Agamotto,' 'Hoggoth,' and 'Clea' varies widely from adaptation to adaptation.

• Characters.Aria The Scarlet Ammo: People call her "Tsao Tsao" as that's the Japanese pronunciation of her Chinese name Cao Cao, although she's adamant that "Koko" is the correct pronunciation where she came from.
• Characters.V Shojo: It takes her three tries to pronounce "aurora borealis".
• Podcast.The Dollop: The difficulty of correctly pronouncing unfamiliar names is an endless source of frustration for Dave. It almost becomes a drinking game when he does episodes in Australia.
• Series.Hockey Night In Canada:
  • In past shows, broadcasters had a hell of a time with Eastern European names.
  • Historically, English Canadian announcers had a hard time with French Canadian player names.
  • Don Cherry regularly mispronounces the names of Jacques Martin and Jean-Sébastien Giguère, though this could be intentional. Becomes ridiculous with Kevin Bieksa of the Vancouver Canucks, whose name Cherry pronounces as "Bieska" every single time he mentions him. And it's not intended as derogatory, because Cherry does it even when he's complimenting Bieksa. Cherry mentions some are intentional. Dustin Byfuglien, for example (pronounced buff-lin locally, pronounced bu-foog-lee-in by Cherry). He also pronounces Luongo as Lalongo for some reason.
  • Bob Cole has trouble pronouncing everyone's name.
• LetsPlay.LAN Party: Parodied as part of their Bad "Bad Acting" in the first Airsoft SpyParty episode. Sam purposefully pronounces Naruto wrong by overemphasizing every syllable.
• Literature.The Rook: As far as Myfanwy knows, her name is said to rhyme with "Tiffany." This is backed up by the matron of the Estate. When she meets Bronwyn it turns out she's been saying it wrong.
• Series.Banacek: Banacek has to correct someone's pronunciation of his name in every episode. Not Banna-seck but Banna-check. (And sometimes he corrects the spelling: "B-A-N-A-C-E-K, just like it sounds.")
• WebAnimation.Toon Sandwich: Tony Stark tries to guess how Thanos' name is pronounced before guessing "The Anus".
• Film.Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: Rick's character on Lancer is named Decoteau, which he thinks is pronounced Dakota but everyone else pronounces as Daycahtoo (the French pronunciation would be closer to Decohtow).

• Characters.Rainbow Six Siege Operators Base Game: A common problem among the game's non-French-speaking players is that they have difficulty pronouncing his name. "Mon-tag-ne", "Mon-tag" and "Mon-taine" are particularly common, for those who don't just skirt the issue and call him "Monty". For the record, it's more like "Mon-tan-yah" or "Mon-tan-ye".
• Characters.Psycho Pass: English-speaking viewers are more likely to pronounce his last name with a "g" as in "general", but the proper Japanese pronunciation is like the "g" in "girl".
• Characters.Lollipop Chainsaw: His name is pronounced "Vee-kay", but is often mispronounced as "Vikk" by Let's Players.
• Fanfic.The Weedverse: Seville's name has confused many English-speaking readers, as it's a Spanish word, so the double ll is pronounced as in "tortilla" (like this).
• Manga.To Love Ru: While in Japanese it can only be "Toraburu", nobody in the West is sure how the title should be pronounced.
• VideoGame.Blood: Cheogh, the first boss (a stone gargoyle). Is it "CHEE-og"? "Chee-off" "Choaf"? Something else?
• Characters.Baldurs Gate Other Party Members: He'll only mention his name once, and it's fairly easy to miss. Thus, the player may not notice that his name is pronounced "kay-gin" and not "ka-gayn". '''(another example for this work is under the "Inconsistent pronunciation" folder)
• Trivia.Samurai Shodown: Fan Nickname: Another is the first part of her name "Wu", because people got tired of trying to pronounce "Ruixiang".
• Trivia.Warhammer 40000: Also often referred to as Rowboat/Rawbutt Girlyman by people who are either annoyed with his frequent in-canon praise despite being dead, confused about how to pronounce his name^note For those of you wondering, it's pronounced "Rob-oot-ey Gill-ee-man" per the Gathering Storm video on him, or both.
• Franchise.Castlevania: Everyone in North America thinks Simon Belmont's name is pronounced "Sigh-mon". In the original Japanese, it's "Shee-mon". It's really supposed to be a French-sounding name, pronounced "See-mohn".
• Headscratchers.Dragonlance: An entire question, potholed as this trope, just asks how to pronounce a character's name.
• Music.Butthole Surfers: piouhgd again. An official press release stated that it was meant to be pronounced "pee-owed", as in the euphemism for "pissed off", but nothing on the actual album lets you know that... And Jeff Pinkus claimed that this pronunciation was fabricated by their record label without their knowledge, and that the band intended the album title to be The Unpronounceable.

• Characters.Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Others: Volume 6 mentions that there's no "correct" way to pronounce ZEMAL, since it's an acronym.
• Literature.More Than This: Pointedly averted for Regine and Tomasz. The narration notes the phonetics of their names when they first introduce themselves.
• ElGoonishShive.Tropes M To R: Subverted. When Grace and Ellen start school, we're not only told how to pronounce "Sciuridae"^note "Skwur-uh-dey" but also "Dunkel"^note "Duhn-kel".
• Webcomic.Miamaska: Averted. Amity acts as an Audience Surrogate to get proper pronunciation across. Seen here and here.

• Theatre.Jasper In Deadland: In mythology the River Lethe is pronounced 'lee-thee' or 'leeth', while here it's pronounced 'leth.'
• WesternAnimation.The Hobbit: In this film, Bofur and Smaug are pronounced as "Boffer" and "Smog" rather than "Boafer" and "Smaog". However, Dáin is pronounced properly (day-in, rather than Dane).
• Thor: Tales of Asgard: At least, they apparently didn't have one, since everyone pronounces "einherjar" incorrectly.

• Anime.Pokemon Lucario And The Mystery Of Mew:
  • It's Bon-sly, not Bon-slee. Pokémon USA were reached for comment after the movie was premiered at a convention and confirmed that 4Kids were doing it wrong.
  • Also, Regice's name makes it look like it should be pronounced Reg-ice, not Reg-i-ice. Although it is pronounced Reg-i-ice in the Japanese version and in most later appearances of the character.
• Creator.JRR Tolkien: Not his invented names or languages but his surname, which is pronounced "Tol-keen".
• Music.Chen: Though at a glance, you'll know that "Chen" is read as chen, in Chinese it's actually pronounced somewhere in between chon and chun. He pronounces it in its Chinese pronunciation when doing Chinese promotions.
• Manga.Nisekoi: "Zawsze" is supposed to pronounced "zav-sheh," but the katakana spell out "Zakusya." Spelling issue, not pronunciation
• WebVideo.Yuriofwind: While reading Haunted Ocarina of Time, Yuri jokingly calls the title "a haunted flute" followed by poking fun at debates among Zelda fans as to how "ocarina" is pronounced.
  "So let us get right down to business as I tell you the tale... of Haunted Ocarina of Time. Yes, you heard me. It's a haunted flute. To make things more terrifying, no one can decide on its pronunciation: Ock-a-rina, or oak-a-rina. Forums have debated such things since the dawn of time. So it's brave of you, author, so very brave, to discuss such matters."
• Characters.Fairy Tail Others: The original Japanese manga and Funimation's English dub pronounces her name with a hard "oo" sound in the Funimation dub, similar to how it is in Japanese. For those that spell it "Ul", however, it would be rendered as "Ool" while the Animax/Tagalog dub pronounces it with a long-u sound.
• Characters.Dancougar: Her name is Japanese and 'Sara' is in Romaji - the actual pronunciation is 'Sah-Rah' with short vowels, not the English-spelled 'Sarah'.^note This is not a problem if you speak Spanish, Italian and other Romance languages.
• Music.Yes: A strange Real Life example, as Anderson mispronounces "Michigan" with a hard "ch" in the band's cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "America". He was still doing this some twenty-five years later on the Keys to Ascension performance. Strangely, he pronounces the city name of Saginaw correctly both times.
• FreudianTrio.Video Games: Superego: Ton(g) Pooh is the leader of the trio, imparting her master's orders and pushing them forward as a team.
• Literature.A Darkness More Than Night: Inverted. Connelly helpfully tells us that Judge Houghton has a nickname: "Shootin' Houghton," which should definitively establish that his last name is pronounced to rhyme with "Shootin'".
• DarthWiki.Queen Of Hearts: Erggggg NO. Here it is:
  • Maconochie: Mah-koh-noh-chee-ay.
  • Hashinkraten: Hah-shin-krah-tin.
• Literature.Age Of Fire: The pronunciation of AuRon is known, thanks to a note at the beginning of Dragon Champion, which also tells us that adult male dragons have their name's emphasis on the second syllable, and Natasatch sounds like "not as such" as shown in the scene where AuRon meets her. However, there is no pronunciation given for anything else, and this in a series that contains names like Aethleethia, OuThroth, and NoFhyriticus, and words like "tchatlassat", "foua", and "haspadalanesh".
• Literature.The Merlin Trilogy: Trope-name only ZCE