Haha the horrid name pronounciation thing. I think every way me n my mates have pronounced their names, they've always been pronounced differently! Here's our list:

Tifa - Tif-a (Tee-fa in AC)
Aerith - (Air-ris) I cant remember if thats how they pronounced it now lol :/
Yuffie - Yuf-fee, whereas in kh/ac its you-fee
Sephiroth - (Sephy-Roth) Im sure it was Seph-roth in AC

Zidane - Zai-dane
Eiko - E-co

Tidus - Tie-Dus

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Tee-dus would sound silly, I'll say Tidus forever.

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What about the 8 characters? Some of them confuse me to this day,
Seifer - Psy-Fur (I think I just adapted this one from Scyther the Pokemon )
Adel - Ah-Dell
Edea - eh-D-ah or E-D-ah. this one still gives me the most trouble to this day.
Quistis - Qu-iss-tis
Irvine - er-vine or er-veen
Esther - Es-there

I was pretty phonetic about it since I was only 9 or 10 when I first played it but looking back some of them make more sense than others

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