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In season 3 of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Hayate calls Reinforce "Rein", and
near the end of season 2 she renames Dark Book to Reinforce. However, looking
at the text, it looks like "re-in-force" rather than "rein-force".

So, I am wondering if "rein-force" is actually how Reinforce is supposed to be
called or if it's supposed to be "re-in-force", which however sounds different
due to it being said by the Japanese.


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How is Reinforce's name supposed to be said?


Converting my comment into an answer, thanks to textual support from
[Dusk252's comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6104/how-is-
reinforces-name-supposed-to-be-said#comment7099_6104)...

The character's name in Japanese is リインフォース _riinfoosu_ , which is basically
how the English word "reinforce" would be rendered into Japanese. So, if you
were talking about Nanoha while speaking in English, you should pronounce the
character's name like the English word
"[reinforce](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reinforce)"; that is, "ree-in-
FOHRS", not "RAHYN-fohrs" or anything else like that.

As seen in the topmost speech bubble in [this excerpt from chapter 2 of Mahou
Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vwbaK.jpg), Reinforce's
name is abbreviated as リイン _riin_. Thus, you should pronounce the abbreviated
form of her name as you would pronounce the correspondingly-abbreviated form
of the English word "reinforce": as " **ree-in** ".


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