Quote Originally Posted by Dynza View Post
With that said, and tying back into the au ra spelling and pronunciation, I do wonder why they went with the "Au" spelling instead of the "Ou" since you still can get the same sound without it running into similar spelling and sounding words like aura.
I dunno about anyone else, but I don't see it pronounced the same as the "ou" in "ouch," despite what Ferne said earlier. Now, before anyone accuses me of ignoring the devs on this, not that he also said Auri rhymes with Maori. And http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...M%C4%81ori.ogg sounds like what I expected from Auri, but does not at all sound to me like an "ow" sound. That is, the "a" and "u" of the word keeping their distinct sounds rather than combining.

Maybe my brain just isn't separating the "ow" sound into its component parts correctly, but either way, I'm not getting it. >_>