How do you pronounce Pate's name?

What do you call this cutie?

  • Pate (to rhyme with plate)

    Votes: 8 42.1%
  • Pâté (like the food - to rhyme with day)

    Votes: 10 52.6%
  • Some other way!

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Total voters
    19
I know it's meant to be a play on duck pate (paah-tay), but I've always pronounced it phonetically (payt) because it doesn't have an accent mark.
 
I know it's meant to be a play on duck pate (paah-tay), but I've always pronounced it phonetically (payt) because it doesn't have an accent mark.

I just think it's so.... sinister if it's like the food, because it's made of duck liver!! poor baby
 
I assume it's pronounced like it's spelled since it's a common name
 
I always thought it was 'payte' as in bald. Because of that I always thought her 'hair' was actually her scalp.

I just looked up what her name in other languages is and her French name is Terrine, so that points to her name actually being Pat?!
 
I read it and say it as Pat?, but figured they meant for it to be Pate (like Plate) since they didn't add the accent mark! :P
 
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