I had a few that I ended up having to correct after reading through the glossary, but a lot of them I just enjoy the correct pronunciation so I used those.  

Egwene (Egg-wayne)

Taim (Tame) - the correct pronunciation throws me

Siuan Sanche (Swan Santch)

Nearly all the Forsaken:

Lanfear I got right

Ishamael (Ish-mael)

Demandred (Dimandred)

Graendal (Gray-ndel) - that sounded SO country to me

Moghedien (Mog-ed-ean)

Semirhage - for the life of me I could not figure her name out.  I was like "Semir-hayje" and "Sem-eer-ujh" and finally "Semi-razh"

Mesaana I got right

Asmodean (Asmo-deen or Asmo-de-an; I alternated)

Sammael I got right

Bel'al I got right

Aginor (Aginor or Aaaaaaah-ginor)

Balthemael I think I got right

then their new forms I got pretty much spot on; Hessalam, Cyndane (Sine-dane or Sin-dane?), Osan'gar and Arin'gar (I liked those names a lot)

Sorilea (Sorilay)

Tel'aran'rhiod (Tel-aran-reeoid)

ashanderai - Matt's weapon.  I pronounced it all kinds of ways before I settled on "ash-ahn-der-eye"

Names I just like saying:

Samitsu

Cadsuane

Nandera

Ethenielle

Gitara

Machin Shin

The twist of words was my theory as well.  She did not intend to give the weapon to a man to kill another man, so she could form the weaves to make it (however she knew them).

A weapon of Air could be made as solid as any weapon, sharper even.  Lanfear cuts off a man's head at the beginning of the Choedan Kal battle with nothing but Air, and when Rand is chasing Asmodean through Rhuidien, he almost gets himself chopped in thirds by thin lines of Air hung by Asmodean to do just that.  It would not just dissipate.

I can't go through 401 pages of questions to see if this is something that has already been asked but...

When Siuan is taking Egwene and Nynaeve to the Tower for the first time, after her visit to Sheinar, she does a training session with them.  In it, Nynaeve states that she'd rather have a good cudgel or something instead of using the Power, and Siuan makes a sword out of Air, then a dagger.

How did she overlook the Three Oaths to make no weapon if she's making swords and daggers with Air?  Is it in the wording of the Oath or was it just a slip of writing?

Rand said she would know when to break the seals...I guess she figured it out.

After learning that the ter'angreal rings drained a person's life...I can't imagine what possessed Gawyn not to get rid of them.  Even Demandred was like "you dumbass...Night's Shade will end up killing you!" which basically told me that it's a weave that Demandred would never use himself.

I thought it was really irresponsible of Gawyn to put on the rings and just run off like that.  And it was really foolish of Egwene to just misplace her Warder like that, too.  "Oh, where's Gawyn...oh he's dying...why didn't I notice that before?"

I think we forget, too, that Egwene is the Amyrlin Seat, leading all the Aes Sedai and working with the leaders of the nations of the world in the Last Battle...at 22-23 years old.  She is a skilled politician, sure, and she's had training with the Wise Ones and Aes Sedai but it struck me that most novices and Accepted spend about 15 years learning weaves, history, etc. while Egwene soared past those positions (novice and Accepted) in little more than 2-3 years.  It was interesting to me that Aviendha said "how can Aes Sedai rank themselves by strength in the Power, something you're born with, instead of the wisdom that years bring a person" (paraphrase). 

Egwene was carrying her portion of the weight of the world on her shoulders and she had barely lived any life, really.  She didn't have Cadsuane's 300 years or Sorilea's 3 centuries...Reanne's 400 years or what's her name's 600 years of experience and life to draw from.  So I think she did pretty well with what she had.  I thought she was going to survive, myself, because of all the "longest reigning Amyrlin" and all the fuss they made about setting up an Amyrlin of strength, etc.  It did seem a little sad to me that she had to die.

I apologize if this has already been asked...I went through the Nakomi thread and was unable to figure out if this had been addressed either.

I think one of the Wise Ones is talking to Aviendha and mentions a dream that states "the only way to find the bowl is to find the one that is no longer"

I know there are many theories on Nakomi...I've read through a lot of that thread but I wondered if "the one who is no longer" could refer to a member of the Jenn Aiel...or perhaps to Asmodean? I just can't seem to figure out who is "no longer" who might be able to help find a bowl.

I don't know if this is a question...or just a line of thought, hehe.

is there a list of the weaves we have seen? and who can perform them?

I thought of a few weaves that were not on the list:

Alise uses a weave to create a spinning shield of Air and suspends it above Elayne and her army. This rotates the air rapidly to deflect any oncoming arrows, should there have been an attack.

Osan'gar (as Dashiva) uses a weave that makes an intimidating buzzing noise that can increase to make people nervous. Rand actually looks over his shoulder to figure out of something is threatening them.

Chesmal uses a weave of Fire, Earth and Water to touch Sareitha and Vandene, killing them instantly.

Egwene discovers that creating a net of Earth (and Fire?) on an object can transform it into cuendillar.

and then I suppose the basic descriptions of each Element;

a weave of Earth can control the earth, a weave of Air can create a shield of air (Rand) or hide something in air (Sheriam) or create weapons of air (Siuan), a weave of Fire can manipulate fire or heat things up (people heat their tea), a weave of Water can manipulate water, a weave of Spirit can create bonds and bind people together, etc.

I have been reading Towers of Midnight again and Elayne produces a letter that gives pardon to Thom's "crimes" both past and present. Thom wonders how she knew of it.

I know Thom was banished or something while he was with Morgase; was the crime Thom committed simply breaking Queen Morgase's heart? Or was it something else, like did Thom kill Taringail Damodred or something?

I thought I had typed this before but I can't find it anymore, and I didn't read the answer.

I was reading about the various Ajahs, and wondered...Mesaana mentions the "ajah" when she's discussing with Alviarin. What was the purpose of the original "ajah"? and did it end up splitting into the seven Ajahs that we have now? I just remember that when Mesaana said it, "ajah" was spelled with a lowercase "a" and now we have the seven Ajahs with an uppercase "A".

Just curious.

In one of Egwene's Dreams she sees a dark, young man holding something that's shining too brightly for her to recognize.

Is this Narishma and Callandor?

It seems like that is the difference, as people have already said.

With men, some things are just done differently. Traveling for women is creating a similar place in the Pattern and weaving Spirit so that the intervening space is nonexistent. For men it's pulling the two places together and then using Spirit to bore a hole through the intervening space.

I think it's the same with Healing - some things are Healed differently with saidin then they are with saidar. And so it seems in this case, the method of extinguishing flames for me is to draw it into themselves and then distribute it somewhere. For women to smother it with Air or Water.

Trying to use the other genders' methods could be disastrous; Moghedien said that if a woman tried to Travel using the male method, she'd be sucked into the spaces between the Pattern and probably die. And Elayne proves that drawing in heat for women could result in bursting in flames or burning herself drastically.

I didn't think so...unless men in WOT participate in bisexuality in the same manner that women do with their "pillow friends".  But so far as I know, the idea was that homosexuality was not considered strange to the people in WOT...simply that RJ had not written out any identifiably gay male characters.

Beslan's phrase just piqued my curiosity, forgive the pun.

Is Beslan gay?

I know this sounds silly but I was re-reading Winter's Heart and when Beslan is talking to Matt about helping him leave he says:

"My mother won't be pleased if she learns I am helping her pretty leave Ebou Dar, Matt.  She will marry me to someone with a squint and a mustachelike a Taraboner foot soldier."

I was thrown a little, unless he simply meant that she would find some woman with facial hair and a squint.  But it occurred to me that he might have been talking about a guy!!

Do portal stones link to places that are persistent worlds?  To put it another way is the world we are reading about is also an alternate reality relative to all others?

I don't think we figure out if WOT philosophy uses our world as a starting point or if our world exists as a reflection of another world.  I assume ours is the starting point and each other world that can be reached through a Portal Stone is a reflection...the sustaining factor being how well that alternative reality is expressed collectively.

For example, maybe 3 million people envision a world without shrimp...so then if you reach that world through the Portal Stone it is solid and real.  Maybe 20 people envision a world with only magenta trees; so then that world would be a weaker world...only a pale reflection perhaps not fully realized.

But I think the starting point is our world.

Concerning ter'angreal, is the making of it determined by simply the substance used to make it?

I seem to remember Elayne being frustrated because she couldn't get the dream ter'angreal ring to look exactly like Coriannin's ring...she could not make the colors work exactly the same way or something.

Also...the Domination Band and the a'dam seem to be made out of two different substances and have two different effects - silver band/bracelet vs. darker metal used in the Domination Band.

I just wondered because I'm trying to envision the process by which a thing becomes a ter'angreal.  Like with the book ter'angreal...would Elayne start with a statue of a man with a book, or find a substance and then shape it into that as the ter'angreal takes form?

(I suppose this might not be a "simple question" heh)

In The Dragon Reborn...when Nynaeve is talking to Siuan (the Amyrlin) before she goes to Tear, Nynaeve mentions Callandor and Siuan says, "No more than a dozen women in the Tower know what Callandor is and perhaps as many outside"

Since Callandor is a major part of the Prophecies wouldn't more people know it's a sa'angreal.  Cadsuane knew (maybe she was one of the dozen "outside") and I can't imagine the Brown Ajah not knowing that.  Was that an exaggerated statement or do Aes Sedai really not know it's a sa'angreal?

I guess i'm thinking of it like this:

Adeleas can lift one man two stories high, but she cannot create a gateway.  She specifically said that "it seems that some of us are not strong enough for some of the newer things" so that made me think that though a gateway's weaving is complex anyone can do it.  But to make it work it requires a lot of strength.  

Sorilea can weave the making of a gateway, but it's far too weak to do anything and just falls apart when she shows it to Cadsuane.  Rand mentions that if he wove a gateway Sammael would be able to feel it anywhere in the city of Illian, or at least if someone wove a gateway he would be able to feel it anywhere within whatever palace he was in.

Lifting a person requires simply Air...but for some reason it's "one of the hardest in channeling" so I was just curious why?  If Adeleas can lift someone two stories but can't create a gateway that seems funny to me.

In Lord of Chaos, when Elayne and Birgitte are scouring the Rahad to find the Bowl of Winds, they note that Adeleas is in the area.  In one scene, she almost gets stabbed but she wraps the attackers in Air, lifts them to the second story of a building and throws them through a window.

However, before they left Salidar Adeleas and Vandene both note that they are not strong enough to make gateways.  When Siuan finds out her Healed strength is much less she makes the comment that lifting something with Air is one of the most difficult things in channeling. 

Is it difficult because of skill?  Or the amount of the Power you have to use?  If Adeleas can't create a gateway but can lift an attacker to the second story of a building...that confused me.

Sorilea is almost always the leader because she is the oldest and therefore has had a much longer time to accumulate wisdom and honor; but I thought there was a scene where Sorilea and Amys had a talk and came out something like equals.  Amys is considered to have a great deal of honor despite her youth I think.  Bair jokes about how long it took for her to consider herself Wise, but follows her wisdom.

I think it just boils down to who has lived life with the most honor and in any given situation everyone offers their wisdom to find the solution.

Does being a Dreamwalker affect honor?  Or is that something that the Wise Ones look on like channeling; some women can do it and others cannot.

what exactly is a shocklance? 

Sammael says that he wishes he had one and it would make things a lot easier as far as killing Rand or something.  Is it just...well, literally a lance that shocks you?

if i'm not mistaken Taim is a Darkfriend, and is under the protection of the Dark One when it comes to channeling saidin.

question:  Galad is a Damodred.  Does this make him Moiraine's nephew or cousin or something?  And does that give Moiraine a relation to Rand, or simply by marriage through Tigraine?  (meaning...Tigraine marrying a Damodred, then having Rand, does that give Rand a relation to Moiraine at all?)

They did?  oh my gosh did I miss that completely?

People have speculated that Aviendha becomes (became?) a Wise One when SHE decides that her apprenticeship is over. 

I wondered, though, because if I recall correctly a Wise One has to enter Rhuidien two times; once to go through the rings and another time to do something else (revisit the history of the Aiel as Rand did?).  Is the second visit moot now that Rand revealed that information, or is the experience of living her ancestors still important to her gaining the title Wise One?

I thought I read somewhere that there were Malkieri Aes Sedai in the Tower, just not that many.  I remember reading that I'll just have to find it.

question:  Who wrote the Prophecies of the Dragon?  Were they given as a Foretelling by an Aes Sedai?  Or have they just sort of always been around?