I always find usernames intersing. FOr years I have been pronouncing Carolly's user names as "haus--ka-door" and recently reallized it is pronounced "Hawks-daughter". I prenounced Pdxjims as "pad-jicks-ums" Don't ask mme why and realize now is it "P-D-x-Jims" Mine is easy but my last name is Kisiel, pronounced like "whistle" but with a "K". lol SO how is your usernames pronounced.

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its spelt zollster but i answer to Master ;)

"kai" as in the character Kai in Lexx the H was added cos of so many ppl using "kai" at various sites..

Now I always thought Kisiel rhymed with diesel.... live'n learn. Mine's my real name anyway and the G is pronounced as in joke not golf ;-)

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lol @ Martian_Manhunter now I am curious is Randym77 pronouced "Randy-M-77" or Random-77"

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Mine is pronounced Zee-bra... Actually, its just Destro, like the old silver-faced Cobra guy from Gi Joe. The 75 was the year I was born... Cool thread Anton, I often look at user names crosseyed and wonder how they should be pronounced!

"Bloh-fyld", as the evil Spectre mastermind in James Bond movies (BTW it's a German surname, so if I'm wrong please some German-speaking people to correct me!).

Charlie. ;)

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Ney-jour ("jour" pronounced like the french "Bonjour") :)

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Well, my user name is pretty simple but last name is another thing. Most people pronounce mine as Cloot or clod...seems simple to me...it's Clout prounounced like cloud with a t.

Great thread Anton - next step would be to inquire what does your last name mean.

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It's Random-77. From my college nickname. I had (okay, still have) a tendency to veer off in random directions. :)

Vi-li-an
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It's pronounced "Featherstonehaugh".

Kayt-thuh-shroo (ok, I'm silly) and my RL last name is an occupation.

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odeathoflife - 'O' -as in the letter- death of life. It is a song I wrote when I was about 16. Half a life ago, it is really 'complete death of life' but that was too long for my yahoo email so I changed the complete to a sphere representing the complete, and since there is no sphere on the keyboard it is an o.

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Ern Yoka in two words. Ern is not pronounced like Urn but I'm not sure what other english word comes close. Yoka is pronounced more or less like Joker (which is what it's supposed to be too) Ern is old norse for "the clever one" G You can calle me TrekkieGrrrl as well. Grrrl is pronounced like girl with a little roll on the r :o) And I thought Kisiel rhymed with diesel as well.

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MistDragon is pretty straight-forward, but I always have mispronounciations of my last name, (June) Maillet. I get mallet, mail-it, maul-it, and how the hell do I pronouce this?! It's actually pronounced Mah-let, and once in a while a keener will say it in proper french, My-yay, which apparenlty means armourer or something? Cool thread!

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Kap-sees. It is a combination of the Cap from Capricorn (my zodiac sign) and the sces from Pisces (my husband's zodiac sign). Hence, the logo with the capricorn and the fishies. ;) Of course, I'm known as Beth too, and me hubby man is Don. :) Anton, I'll never remember Kistle. ;) I've always thought Kisiel would be Kee-zee-ul.

Starkdog, Back a few years ago, there was a cartoon called EEK the Cat. There was a character there, Sharky the Shark-dog. Well, my last name is Starkey, thus my buddies called me Starkey the Starkdog, and so my nickname is now Starkdog.

garblesnix. pronounced "studly-man-meat-hottie-oh-who-am-I-kidding-I'll-never-wear-a-Speedo-again". The "studly-man-meat-hottie" is silent.

I'm trying to figure out why Sam Therapy's post links to my artist's page. "Not my last name, my complete user name, and why. :) " He and I are not the same. Not any more. The doctor said so. --- Bob a sore. Kind of like "dinasaur" except not extinct. yet.

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pronounced "studly-man-meat-hottie-oh-who-am-I-kidding-I'll-never-wear-a-Speedo-again". ROFLMAO!!! That one is my favorite. Mine is simple ... DC

What I'd like to know is if you can have a different name on the forums to your login username, cos mine is just awkward, but when I first signed up to a website there was already a JohnRickard and I've been too lazy to check at each site ever since.

Hey JohnRickardJR, you think you've got problem's? Take a look at what I got lumbered with!! Same story...sort of. When I signd up there must have been some sort of problem with the site??? I shit you not I must have tried 7 / 8 differant nick's and password combo's and they were ALL taken!! In the end i just got fed up and put butter as 'user'thinking theres no way THAT'S taken, and I was right so now i'm stuck with it unless I go make another email address and start again?? Then I'll have to use both names or lose my 'Purchases'page. 'Wish you could just change the user name!

Sling-errrrrrrrrrrrr what was the question again? ;) AntoniaTiger, I wanted to use that one. ~lol~

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Well, I'm maclean, pronounced 'maclayne'. Please, please, never 'mackleen'!!! (Damn those toothpaste ads!) It's actually my middle name, but as a scottish photographer in italy, I adopted it as a surname. The italians all expected me to be mac-something, not davidson. Anyway, quite a few of my ancestors on the maclean side were all famous (as pipers), so why not try too? mac

A Scottish photographer in Italy. That conjures up some very intriguing scenarios ;-)

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Comes from the old Werewolf: The Apocalypse RPG from White Wolf... five signs based on phases of the moon... Which one you were determined what you were (Warrior, Historian, Judge, Mystic, or Prankster), the Philodox was the judge... Never took sides, thought everything out, recognized the need for balance in all things...

Zantor with a z sound like xylophone. It has no meaning I just tried to pick a name that wasn`t very good so that no one else would have used it.

pronounced "studly-man-meat-hottie-oh-who-am-I-kidding-I'll-never-wear-a-Speedo-again". >>The "studly-man-meat-hottie" is silent. I am reading this at work, and I just laughed out loud, literally. One of these days I am going to get fired for my wasting time...lol

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Mizrael - Pronounced the same as Israel only with an M in front of it. It's the name I chose for my Ice Wizard in the online game Dark Ages of Camelot. Miz the Wiz for short.

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Tie-Voe The "a" is silent. Mine is often mispronounced. :D Wow... all this time I thought Daio's name was Die-o. o_o

Gongyla G twice like in ghost accent on y pronounced as ee in wheel la pronounced lah, the a British like in potAtoe, and have the a fade away in h. best I know is Ghoti it is pronounced: Gh like gh in enough o like o in women ti like ti in station what does that spell? (four letters)

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I've never been good at finding a good username and always had problems addressing someone as "something or another" so I wanted to use my real given name. BUT, cedillas are not accepted and if I write my name without it, it is pronounced FRANK-OAZ -- OUACH!!! Written like it is supposed to be FRANISE, it is pronounced FRANSS-OAZ but I know no English speaking person who is able to pronounce the AN part correctly. So I settled for my nickname FRANCE but when I first registered here, it was already taken (although I've never read any message from another France) so I used my middle initials (Marie Isabelle) and it ended up as FRANCE-M-I (Francemi). My real surname (ROY) means KING in English. And I also thought Kiesel was pronounced like Diesel. ;o)

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I goofed and punched LawnDart in twice when I was signing up<< LOL Lawndart, that's the reason? I do think saying it twice is kinda catchy though. :) I also thought Kisiel was "kee-sel" and Daio was "die-o", haha. Mine's pronounced just as it looks, and I ended up with it after building a big snowman...yeah, that's all. ;) SnowS

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Pakled, like the synaptically-challenged aliens on Star Trek: the Next Generation..;) Pak-like hat, Led- like Zepplin..;) or as they'd say in Chalybeate Springs NC ...Stahr Trayek? say Whut?..;)
wanted 'gadfly', but it was taken, que lastima..and I'd been at 'rosity for a year at the time, so I was getting flak over being 'nu-be'..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

zigg-eeeee wif a zed not a zee SamTherapy: Damn... I always pronounced yours as... Sam The Rappy ;-)

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Pronounced as N Gal 47 - Engel is Dutch for Angel, as my first name is Angela which means "a messenger from God" (really) and 47 is the age I was, when I took up poser and joined this site, and I haven't looked back since :) The user name I had most trouble deciphering was ynsaen.

I was under the impression that Ynsaen is pronounced "INSANE"
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Everyone I know wanted to say mine as T-dal-ka, when there is NO way to say mine, never was and most likely never will be...... All 6 letter are the first letter of my husbands and my names....... T-Theodore D-Dennis A-Anthony L-Linda K-Kay..... hence, tdalka.

"SamTherapy: Damn... I always pronounced yours as... Sam The Rappy ;-)" Arf! :)

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Well, maybe I should restate that and say there is no correct way to say it! lolol It is just initials, and however it is said, I will most likely respond lolol

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Holy cow my username sux!!! First initial + lastname =LAME!!!!! Actually I guess it would be more like: Golly "g" "helmer" (at the helm - I dunno!!) I've had people read my email address as "jell-mer" Like "Jello" + "Mer" I officially am very disapointed with my username... In real life most folks call me G man though... wish I put that instead!! G

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During my years as a constable, when I came around to my fathers house. My father would say "Oh look whos' here..Robocop!" So, I accepted the nickname. But trying to make a usename Robocop on forums isn't easy.."Already taken". So, I decided to take half of Robocop to Robo, and then put a year at the end. No one has an 2010 at the end of their username. 5 more years off. :-) So you can say.."Robo 2 thousand 10" or "Robo twenty....Ten" Or the long way.."Robo two zero...one...zero"...lmao People reply with "Robo"..which I find just as good.

Mine is pronounced "kay-dug". It's my first initial and the first syllable of my last name. Gotcha beat, ghelmer! :P I'm more lame than you! And I thought that Kisiel may have been pronounced "kiz-EL".

Mine is lame as well...my initials + zipcode = not creative at all LOL...nothing to pronounce here.

'but I know no English speaking person who is able to pronounce the AN part correctly' Oh, I can. I took french and german at school and scots find french pronunciation quite easy. I had no problems with french, although to be honest, I prefer italian. After 20 years here, I'm pretty fluent. The people where I live speak an italian-french patois, and I watch swiss-french TV, so I keep it up a little, but not as much as I'd like. Fr-awn-swah would be the nearest I could get in type, but it misses the rrrr sound. mac PS Most people don't know a cedilla or a circumflex from a bar of soap, unfortunately.

Hey Mac, I might start calling you Harley ;) And I live in Maclean (well, about 1km out of it) and it's pronounced like yours - it's a Scottish town which is very proud of it's heritage - so proud, they have all the family tartans painted on the bottoms of every telegraph pole rolls eyes I thought Kisiel was pronounced Kiss - ee - el (el as in Superman). Francemi, I thought your's was Fran - see - me :) Porthos, every time I see your nick I think of Archer's cute little cheese eating dog LOL Of course, it never takes me much to associate anything with Star Trek ;) Mine is just Zee - nah, like the warrior queen :) I'm a fan shrug and because my real name is close, most people just call me Xee (pronounced Zeee - my real name is Lee) now.

Mine is easy also. Lil' short for little, I am short, and Wolff because I have lupus. I was going to use LilLupus many years ago. But it kept reminding me of an old song, Little Egypt. "Yeh, let me tell you people LilLupus doesn't dance there anymore" "Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying" ;-)

'so proud, they have all the family tartans painted on the bottoms of every telegraph pole' rolls eyes too I don't mind people being a bit patriotic, but I cringe when I see stuff like that. There's nothing worse than ex-pats doing the 'old country' routine. Harley???? Must be an Oz thing? Xena is cool. Anything that bad, becomes totally watchable. Like Cell Block #9 or whatever it was called. mac

Maclean, thank you for reminding me. My sister's boyfriend is Scot and you are right, he is able to pronounce my name correctly. And I agree with you, not many people know about the cedilla. Unfortunately, many French speaking persons write my name without it too.

Apart from my sister's boyfriend, all English speaking people try to pronounce the AN sound and some come near but NONE of them pronounce the rest correctly and they end up calling me Franis (no E at the end) and that gives me a man's name. I am a woman BTW. ;o) P.S. Xena, no, I am not at all the kind of person who absolutely wants for others to see her. loll

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Boring, just my name. Les (pronounced Lez) Bentley.

Wow, I have really been mispronouncing some. I thought Pakled was like "pickled". hehe The meanings people choose are interesting too.

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Oops! You're right, of course. It should be 'Fr-awn-swahze'. I must be tireder than I thought. It's almost 2.30 am here. Off to bed now. G'night all. mac

Daio (day-oh) has been my nickname for 28 years now and you wouldn't believe the ways people have pronounced it. "I commonly get "die-oh' or day-ee-oh" from folks trying to pronounce it. My mother can't seem to get the "oh" part - she calls me "day-ah" or just "day". BTW I thought I made the name Daio up, not knowing there it was actually a MAN's name in Japan ( I'm female and I have no idea how they pronounce Daio in Japan).

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Pronounced "Cur-win", it's my middle name. I have been referred to as a "she" a couple of times in the Forum but I am actually a man, and a pretty old one at that.

Like "Elizabeth" (my middle name) but with "byte" instead of "beth". :-) bonni

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Maclean it was prisoner cell block H, they added the cell block h so that it wouldn`t be confused with the prisoner, the old patrick mcgoohan series.

Daio (day-oh) well there is at least another one I got right. This was a great idea Anton and a lot of fun to read.

LOL @ Mac ... you said your last name is Davidson - hence the Harley reference. I'm getting too obscure in me old age perhaps ;)

Ironbear has a unique pronounciation for my unweildy screen name: "Fred." Sheesh. Fred. Oh well, you can't complain too much about the nicknames that people give you. It only makes then stickier. :-) Oh yeah, it's "show-ko-no-stlay." I agree, fun thread. :-)

beachnut - Simple enough but people always wanted to know why I named myself after a tree! I love the ocean I'm a beach-nut. Not the beechnut tree, not beechnut the chewing gum ;)

I think garblesnix and LawnDartLawnDart defintately win the best name trophy for this thread hehee!

And Francemi..Well...I just call ya France ;)

Anton, I always thought your last name was Kee-zul.

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FlyByNight, not too hard to figure out. Taken because I couldn't sleep much and spent most nights until the wee hours of the morning on the computer.

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Oh-dee-eff, easy enough. My initials. I like them. I thought Anton's last name was pronounced "Kee-zee-el'.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.

Hmm, I thought Anton's last name was pronounced KIE-zell with the emphasis on the first syllable. Nothing fancy about mine, simply my last name, literally pronounced "Red" "Fern" (as in a non flowering plant that is red in color). English in origin, the family name still has a presence in the British Isles (where it's still spelled "Redfearn"); however, my closest relatives and I hail from south Georgia. Funny how people interpret the origin of my name. Some thought I was the offspring of '60s "Flower Children"; others thought it was Native American, like Roundtree. When I joined an "ElfQuest" mailing list, more than one person assumed it was a concocted name keeping in theme with Wendi and Richard Pini's independent comic saga. Heh, go figure. Sincerely, Bill

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Thribble-Bivver-whack.... lol well mines easy shed of joy... also i have been told it sounds like the name of a Porn site Shedofjoy.... lol.... (not allowed to put in the .com because i was recently told off by theFixer for doing that, tis against the TOS apparently..ho hum)

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mode-us-oh. Short for modus operandi, which I think sounds pretty cool, and isn't something often used as a screen name.

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If you're joking that's just cruel, but if you're being sarcastic, that's even worse.

"I'm female and I have no idea how they pronounce Daio in Japan" They would say "die-o" (dai is basically pronounced the same as "die" over here), that's why I thought it was "die-o" too. :) "Oh yeah, it's "show-ko-no-stlay." LOLOLO, I never really tried to sound your name out, and always just saw you as "X-on-cost-el" or "X-con-ost-el". Oops. ;D SnowS

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No prob Snow, believe me, I curse the day I chose that name! :-)

For the older crowd: "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny, but you's don't have to call me Johnson!" Gary. I added the extra "eee"s as a joke when I worked at Disney's Animal Kingdom. We couldn't properly pronounce many of the South African's names, and when I added the 3 eee's on my nematag, they actually pronounced them hard, (Gare-e-e!)which was pretty funny. It made a easy exclusive google search, and nick, so I kept it.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Acadia..... like "Joan of Arcadia", minus the "R"

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Can't go wrong with mine. Or my current surname. Wise choice I made marrying a Duggan. My maiden name was Boczek (Polish father). Pronounced 'Bow Check' Not many got that one right. Helen

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Well my username is relatively simple I think "SkyeWolf" = Sky Wolf

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Mine is easy: Lak-s-mi - a as in star- and i as in bit => Laksmi. I don't know if in India they pronounce like this, but here we pronouce Laksmi this way. I was learning about India by the time I was choosing a nickname for internet use, a long time ago lol. Interesting topic :-)

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Mine is easy... Blu Echo as in blue echo...lol.
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Let me introduce you to my multiple personalities. :)
     BluEcho...Faery_Light...Faery_Souls.

Actually, I dun no how to pronunce mine . . . ( '~')

Not "ASCII Code Plus"? (ASCII = ask-ee, at least in all the computer courses I ever took.)

Leather Guy as in "that leather guy". So many conversations and phone calls I get start with "Are you that leather guy who did the cool celtic vambraces (or sword rig, or presentation panel, or whatever) for (insert name here)?", so I picked leather-guy as my screen name with my first online email account. Kinda kept it up from then. Tooling historical designed leathers started as a hobby to get away from my "real-world" computer job, but I started making decent money at it, and finally became a leather tooler full time several years back. Now I play with a computer in my free time for diversion. . . I thought ynsaen was just neasny spelled backwards, and Anton's last name rhymed with Bissel. Fun thread.

AniMajik = Animation + Magic - my 37 yr old company's name. Call me anything but late to dinner!

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LOL Gareee!!! That's an honor to comedian Bill Saluga (for those who collectively remember his character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr). "...You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ... but ya doesn't hafta call me Johnson" In the same vain, you can call me Default or you can call me Guy, but ya don't have to call me Dork.

smallspace? It's actually pronounced, "piccolospazio". :-)

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I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

Brynna = bryn na. Feminized for Bryn, which means high place or hill in Welsh. My Wiccan name, which in full is Brynna Morgan... sometimes in forums you'll see me as brynnamorgan because either someone else has brynna or I've forgotten my password or whichever email addy I had to retrieve it with. ;-)

Not "ASCII Code Plus"? (ASCII = ask-ee, at least in all the computer courses I ever took.)

That was my first reaction, too.

And I thought Anton's was pronounced kis-sel.

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"Junk - Mail". The "8" and "9" are silent. I know, I know, it doesn't make sense.... :)

BTW I thought I made the name Daio up, not knowing there it was actually a MAN's name in Japan ( I'm female and I have no idea how they pronounce Daio in Japan).

Daioh means great king in japanese. (I don't know if they really use this as a name, except in animes).

And about my username: it comes from a minor character in an anime called El Hazard. Animes are japanese but I don't know if Kyraia had the same name in the original. I only know the german version.
In German the pronunciation is very easy. The "y" is generally pronounced as " (u-Umlaut), and to speak with Francoise (sorry, there is no cedille on my keyboard :-)
but I know no English speaking person who is able to pronounce this correctly - although it is very easy once you realize that the pronounciation has nothing to do with the "u" where it comes from, but is quite close to "i" (or "ee" like in cheese).
So, the pronunciation is something like Krah-yah.

Kyraia actually is a female character, but in reality I am ... an alien

Faw Zell, sort of like a fossil, but even older.

wee-zee, a nickname I've had as long as I can remember thanks to the The Jefferson's TV show. I've heard it so long now my given name just sounds silly to me. This thread was fun to read. It's cleared up some of the trickier names here :)

Im spanish. So you probably pronounce my nick as "ka-set". But I pronounce it as "Kah-seh-teeh". Try to think on burritos and cantina mariachi, but spanish (from Spain) pronounciation is less soft as mexican one, a lilbit hard (mexicans usually ask why spanish people sounds ever as if they were angry... sounds different)

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Gree-bo easy really. Back when I was internet newbie and had zero imagination for my very first email addy (which I still have) I chose the name of one of my cats who obviously was named after Terry Pratchetts Greebo. Of course, in retrospect, maybe naming myself as a grotty old tom cat that shags and/or fights anything that moves was not the greatest of ideas. Especially as I'm female :) And just as a side note, I have the user name of Nanny Ogg over at the site that can't be named :)

LOL @ Helen - what a tasty maiden name you had ! Greetz to your dad :D BTW Anton - don't you have any Polish ancestors ? Your surname is pronounced strangely similar to Polish word written "kisiel" too :)

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As Robyn Hitchcock would say, "Please don't call me Reg, it's not my name". :)

Mine is easy! lol Just the way it looks ;o) pokey dots And it doesn't mean a thing! lol Just thought it sounded fun! An old name I used on game sites was mommamoose, and that one was because I use to do the bullwinkle antler thingy ( ya know thumbs in your ears!)at my grankids and yell moose on the loose! lol

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LOL! I think after reading that SillieSallie would be a good one for you ;-)

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Morphy pronunced... uh... Morphy (well, I love morping stuff, and I'm in Ireland - Morphy/Murphy, geddit?? :)

quote Khai --"kai" as in the character Kai in Lexx the H was added cos of so many ppl using "kai" at various sites.. --- Mmmmmmmm Kai (i loooooove michael mcmannus..drooool teehee) well my user name is pretty clear i think... SIM-DER-RELLA hehe -but my real name gets all kinds of weird pronouciations.. it is - Xianah = Zee-anna most people just call me Xi (Zee) ...and this always makes me chuckle, someone in a chat room, once asked me why people were calling me 11... get it?? they thought XI was roman numerals.. LOL -S- xXx

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Well, SnowSultan and kyraia, that explains why the most common "misprounciation" I get is "die-oh". And why a number of people who don't know me personally start off thinking I am Japanese and male instead of German-American and female. ;-)

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In-doh-da origin Zulu/Shangaan = man Tried quite a few names that had been taken so resorted to a language I tried to learn some 20 years ago.

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laying back - simple. Comes from a now-defunct email addy. Was enjoying early retirement (from choice), and got cable broadband service from @Home about the same time, ergo layingback@home.com. Alas all good things must come to an end ;-)

I've been thinking about XENOPHONZ (charlie) and think I figured it out.

xeno comes from the word xeno. Or maybe it's a prefix or something. Anyway, it means "stranger" (also used in "xenophobia" -the extreme fear of strangers)

"phonz" sounds like "Fonz" which many of us recognize as Arther Fonzarelli, that icon of cool badness in the legendary TV show "Happy Days."

[In all honesty I think that email circulating the Internet about phonz being the Greek work for "poopydiapers" is even less accurate than the one saying "Bobasaur" means to bounce your head up and down over a small festering wound.]

Anyways, all this leads me to conclude that XENOPHONZ probably means "stranger cool badness."

Or not.

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Well, Daio, I don't know about German-Americans, but Germans surely would pronounce your screen name as "Die-oh", or even worse, "Duh-yoh". Actually, that's how the little voice in my head pronounces it. Now I'll have to change that habit, I guess.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.

Law-naan, vampiric fae of Celtic lore. Wishing i had used a capital "L", I get Ihiannan alot :D

'LOL @ Mac ... you said your last name is Davidson - hence the Harley reference. I'm getting too obscure in me old age perhaps' Nah, xena, I'm just stupid at that time of night. '"Junk - Mail". The "8" and "9" are silent. I know, I know, it doesn't make sense.... :)' Maybe not, but it's fun. If anyone remembers Tom Lehrer, the great American satirist. 'I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know, called Henry. Only, to give you an idea of what an individualist he was, he spelled it H-E-N-3-R-Y. The '3' was silent' And my personal favorite, (and my signature at PoserPros). 'Actually, I did rather well myself this past Christmas. The nicest thing I received was a Gift Voucher, good at any hospital for a lobotomy' Tom Lehrer - 1950s mac

SilverMage, with a long "a" as in "may". I had a client when I actively did web design who made me insane by pronouncing my company name SilverMage Concepts badly. She was trying to be impressive and "cultured" she always pronounced the "mage" like she was saying "Decoupage". Came about from my old BBS days of playing L.O.R.D.S, I played as Lady Warrior but when I was listed on some websites as a top player they came gunning for me lol so I changed my handle to RubyMage for my playing partner at the time and eventually to GoldenMage and ultimately to SilverMage, since I always prefer silver to gold. But when I came here it was taken, hence the "lady" in front of it.

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I've heard mage garbled into madge, but never mahj. Urgh, heh. But then again, I am amazed at the number of people who just go blank trying to spell my last name. McCormick isn't a weird name :) So, I start spelling it for them... "Em, Cee, Cee"... "What, 2 C's?" Which doesn't help when we've just got through trying to spell my first name. Deana... pronounced Dee-An-Uh. Person: "Dee-eye-ay-en-ay"... "Dee-Ee, actually"... Person has dumbfounded look "Really?" "No, I am lying. My name is Deana, I spell it Diana." If you're not from So. Ohio where vowels are pronounced differently, it's okay. But if you're my great aunt and lived 4 minutes away from me my entire life, it's not.:)

Odf, my mother is German - immigrated to the US when she was 19 and she pronounces it "day-oh" or rather 'day-ah" - she seems to have troubles with the "o". I can see where people would think "Dai" should be pronounced "die" given the pronounciations of Tai Chi and Chai Tea but I pronounce it "day" and since it's my nickname/screen name, I can pronounce it however I want. ;-) But if someone accidentally ran into me at someplace and pronounced it "die-oh", I'd probably respond... after blinking in confusion a moment.

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Daio, yep, the "o" is pronounced subtly differently in German. I'd probably sound much like your mother when I said Daio. :-)

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.

"are-dee-vah" is how to pronounce mine. :)

Well I was saying Daio as you do lol lhiannan - you think that's bad? My maiden name was "Bump" and still people ask how to spell it lol Then of course there is the reaction to my first name: "Shawn? Your name is Shawn? That's a boy's name!" For some reason there are people who think they need to notify me that I have been misnamed lol

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ROFLMAO (no - that's not how I pronounce my user-name).... @ AntoniaTiger : Hi Fanshaw! (How ever did the English language come up with that wierd spelling??) and @ Gongyla : "ghoti" = "Fish" (Credit where credit is due: George Bernard Shaw invented that one to emphasise the peculiarities in English Pronunciation). Still a hoot, though.. BTW, Diolma can be pronounced any way you like..:-)) Cheers, Diolma

Tank you Anton fer helpin' elucidate this bafflin' concept. Me = Free(style) Bass (player). And fer further clarification; Bass = 4 stringed musical instrument...I DON'T play the 'lectric fish!!! This is a great thread....Due to the shortage of capital letters on many ppls keyboards, usernames can be difficult to decipher. Until today, I was never sure if it was Mr Sparky, or Mrs Parky. But I'm still confused on Vilian..."an" like in "banana"...Ummmm, there's 2 "an" sounds, & they don' sound alike ('round here, anyway ;-)

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There is only one "an" sound in banana, it is repeated.

I wondered the same thing that FreeBass did. I've heard the word banana pronounced this way by people from Hawaii to Virginia, South Dakota to Florida: Bu (u as in "up") na (a as in "apple") nu (u as in "up) I hadn't heard any other pronouciations.

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The correct way to pronounce banana is with one "an" sound, regional variations don`t count.

I suspect the AN in Vilian should be pronounced about the same way as the AN in Franise but like Vilian said, there is no word with that exact sound in English. ;o)

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My user name is pretty easy to pronounce...Sophia and Deer

I picked Sophia after Sophia Loren and Deer after my real last name which is Deer With Horns. My husband is Lakota Sioux, born and raised on the Cheyenne River Sioux rez in South Dakota.

We live in Connecticut now.

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The correct way to pronounce banana is with one "an" sound, regional variations don`t count.

Dictionary.com disagrees with you. Bobasaur is right. The first (and last) a is a "schwa" while the second is a short a.

"I picked Sophia after Sophia Loren and Deer after my real last name which is Deer With Horns. My husband is Lakota Sioux, born and raised on the Cheyenne River Sioux rez in South Dakota." How romantic :-)

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** I wondered the same thing that FreeBass did. I've heard the word banana pronounced this way by people from Hawaii to Virginia, South Dakota to Florida: Bu (u as in "up") na (a as in "apple") nu (u as in "up) I hadn't heard any other pronouciations.** We Aussies pronounce it bar-nar-nah :)

My birthname was Rebecca Gilbreath (Galbraith). When I was 23 I bought a new last name and changed the spelling of my first name. I was Rebekah Blackhart. Black as in the color and hart as in a male deer. Then I met and married Les. I tried to get him to take my last name since I bought it, but he wouldn't go for it. Men. ;p --Rebekah--