By Joseph Walter
It's a topic that has been a source of rage for me since approximately 1998.
That topic is "how to properly pronounce 'Skulltula.'"
It's not a hard question, but it's one that a baffling amount of people have bafflingly gotten wrong, and have continued to get wrong, for over 20 years.
So consider this a PSA, because I'm setting the record straight, once and for all.
No. All wrong.
It's Skull-CHU-La. Like TARANTULA.
Because it's a spider. With a skull on it. It's a fucking skull tarantula. It's Skulltula.
Also, how could so many people utterly fail to figure out what the intended pronunciation was in the first place?
This isn't like "Deku" (an arguably fictional word that wasn't spoken out loud until Breath of the Wild, where it's clearly pronounced "DAY-KU.") This is fucking "Skulltula." It's an easy pun. Fucking say it right.
And while we're at it, it's TOLL-KEY-IN, not "TOLL-KIN." Source: J.R.R.'s Tolkien's biography.