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SunSeeker

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8. So it's pronounced like bidet macaw ska. I don't get why they didn't put more vowels in Bde.

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 31, 2026, 09:14 PM

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Bde is pretty impossible to know how to pronounce unless you already know the name. Seems to be doing the name a disservice to use that spelling. "Bihday Makah Skah" would be more true to the pronunciation.

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