"Caco" in "Cacodemon" is pronounced:

[SiFi270]

I've always pronounced it how it was pronounced the first time I ever heard it.

[seed]

11 hours ago, Nine Inch Heels said:

Like "taco", but with a "C".

 

[Bauul]

Since when is "taco" pronounced with a long a?

 

The poll really confused me at first because to me "taco" rhymes with  "whack-o" or "quack-o". But I think you mean it pronounced to rhyme with "bark-o" or "lark-o".

[TakenStew22]

One of my friends literally mispronounces them as "cackledemon". So the first one seems about right.

[Urthar]

I'm fairly sure it's pronounced 'ka-ko'

[Grazza]

21 hours ago, Fonze said:

The earliest known records, from a prestigious source, mind you, suggest that:

 

 

Since my old reference to the Latin verb cacare has been brought up, a few comments seem in order.

1) No one can be wholly sure how the Romans pronounced words. We have no sound recordings, and while Latin has continued to be used in some form until modern times, a couple of millennia is a long time for the sounds to evolve.

2) Cacare is very much the verb "to shit", not poop or defecate. Much as futuere is the latin verb "to fuck", not make love, fornicate, copulate or lie with. Thus the well-known expression "Futue te ipsum!".

3) Apparently it is from ancient Greek anyway, but the same comment applies about our uncertainty regarding how they pronounced words.

 

fraggle's poll is a good example of why phonetic symbols are needed in any discussion such as this. Even within British pronunciation, "carko as in taco" is going to cause a lot of confusion. To anyone from northern England, it is a head-scratcher. "If you pronounce castle like 'carstle' you sound like an arsehole" as an archaeologist friend of mine once explained. Scottish and US pronunciations are different again. Taco seems a particularly inappropriate example, since this does have an original Spanish pronunciation that certainly has no 'r' sound of any kind in it.

 

Anyway, there isn't any real need to guess on this topic. Cacodemon isn't a word that was made up for Doom. It predates the game, and it is pronounced:

 

/kækəˈdiːmən/

 

Problem solved. :P

[Marlamir]

22 hours ago, YukiRaven said:

Like cackle, with an "ohh" or "uhh" sound after the "cack" part.

I dont know why but your post crack me down into laughter. 

 

edit: Most of times i ended up pronouncing him "kokot" (who's from czech understand me, who not go google. i dont want to be rude way to much :D). This pronouncing sound close enough anyway.

[Chezza]

Only in Doomworld would we discuss such a thing in length. I love you guys.

[Antnee]

TIL that I'm in an extreme minority.

 

It's pronounced Keiko (O'Brien)-Demon.

[Rawrfunkle]

Who the fuck says Caco like cake-o? That's scary as hell.

 

Fuck it, let's get dangerous and say cock-o.

[jerk-o]

17 hours ago, Rawrfunkle said:

Who the fuck says Caco like cake-o? That's scary as hell.

 

Fuck it, let's get dangerous and say cock-o.

 

But what if I wanted to call it caulk-o?

[Robo_Cola]

On 10/19/2018 at 9:51 AM, Rawrfunkle said:

Who the fuck says Caco like cake-o? That's scary as hell.

 

Fuck it, let's get dangerous and say cock-o.

Yeah I usually say "Cack-o" but sometimes I do find myself saying "cock-o."  John Romero pronounces it as Cack-o.

[Reisal]

Cake-o but for the longest time beforehand I pronounced it as cock-o.

[HorrorMovieRei]

hmmmmmm

[Maser]

I'm very juvenile so I pronounce is as "kaka" as in shit. 

[Novaseer]

I pronounce taco like tacko, so of course cacko.

[Empyre]

Does anybody pronounce it like the caco from cacophony. Neither do I.