>>15880309Strictly speaking, it comes from Poketto Monsutaa, which is pronounced "Poe KET, toe MOAN sue TAAH"
Which is shortened to "Pokémon", pronounced "poe KEH moan"
Obviously the accent changes a bit, but the point of the "é" is to indicate that it has emphasis... S properly, in English, it should sound something like;
puh KEH mun ('eh' as in Edward).
Obviously nobody emphasizes it that way, and all normal people say "POE kuh mon", so I guess "uh as in monday"), but that's technically wrong.
