# Doper names you always mis-read even though you know what they are. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955 "2007-12-14T03:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/21 "2007-12-14T16:11:07Z")
A lot of people, including me, would look at **ronincyberpunk** and se it as **rouncybouncypunk** , or something like that. So he changed it to **ImprovGeek** , and I had to point out that I saw THAT as **ImprovedGreek**. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/22 "2007-12-14T16:22:24Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Whenever I see **Agent Foxtrot** I think it’s me at first. [/QUOTE] That’s funny, because I do too (think he’s you, not think he’s me). ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/23 "2007-12-14T16:55:19Z")
I get **HazelNutCoffee** and **HilarityNSuze** confused. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/24 "2007-12-14T16:59:09Z")
**litoris** Do I have to explain? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/25 "2007-12-14T17:00:08Z")
For the longest time, I thought **Bobotheoptimist** was an optometrist named Bob. It’s stuck. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/26 "2007-12-14T17:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] For the longest time, I thought **Bobotheoptimist** was an optometrist named Bob. It’s stuck. [/QUOTE] holy shit this is still exactly how I read it!! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/27 "2007-12-14T17:42:00Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] For the longest time, I thought **Bobotheoptimist** was an optometrist named Bob. It’s stuck. [/QUOTE] Since we’re on the topic of usernames, does yours have anything to do with the book Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi? According to Henry Hill in that book Paul Castellano loved hitting the town on stolen credit cards and called them “muldoons”, so every time I see your name I think if you as a credit card theif. In a good way though. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/28 "2007-12-14T17:52:32Z")
**RancidYakButtTeaParty** , who is actually **RancidYakButt_er_TeaParty**. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/29 "2007-12-14T17:54:29Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] I still mentally pronounce **TubaDiva** as an informal way of saying Tuba Diver, which of course makes no sense. Swear to Og that’s what I thought it was for a long time. Can’t say as to why. [/QUOTE] That’s what I think, too! I still read it that way in my head. Like, she likes to dive in tubas or with tubas. I thought I was the only one… ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/30 "2007-12-14T17:55:45Z")
I never had any problems interpreting **Mangetout** , but until recently I thought **ChiefScott** was **ChefScott**. Sorry, man! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/31 "2007-12-14T17:59:18Z")
Oh, and before **CatInASuit** changed his name, I would read it as **Catina Suit**. Which I suppose is why he changed it. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/32 "2007-12-14T18:03:53Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] How about not misreading, but probably mispronouncing? I always see your name as “norry new”, and it was only when some one addressed you as Norine that it occurrend to me it’s probably Norine W. [/quote] Well, this is my fault, of course. I could have been clever like other Dopers and thought up some amusing, witty username, but noooooo. I had to go with the username first assigned to me by my very first ISP in my email addy, which happened to be my first name and last initial; it never even occurred to me that people would have trouble parsing it until shortly after I registered and people started addressing me as “nori”, and I thought, yikes, they think I’m “nori-new”. Now at DopeFests, that’s how I introduce myself! 🆒 > [@](#): > > And of course I pronouce **Vinyl Turnip** as “Throatwarbler Mangrove,” but then who doesn’t? Well, duh. How else would you pronounce it? ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/33 "2007-12-14T18:10:04Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] **litoris** Do I have to explain? [/QUOTE] First name is Mulva? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/34 "2007-12-14T18:28:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Since we’re on the topic of usernames, does yours have anything to do with the book Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi? According to Henry Hill in that book Paul Castellano loved hitting the town on stolen credit cards and called them “muldoons”, so every time I see your name I think if you as a credit card theif. In a good way though. 😛 [/QUOTE] Hmm, since this story is far more interesting than the entirely lame explanation of my username, let’s go with that. Yup, my username is based on a powerful New York crime boss. Not anything geeky like a popular PC game from 8-9 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/35 "2007-12-14T18:53:57Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] **litoris** Do I have to explain? [/QUOTE] I wondered if my name would come to light. On a side note, one of my $tarbucks baristas sent me a friend request so she could check out my Thanksgiving pictures. The other day, while talking about what I am making for gifts for Christmas this year, she mentioned to another of the baristas “oh, yeh, she has a myspace page!” The other barista then asked for my name so he could look me up, and she was at a loss as to how to pronounce it. When I explained that it is “clitoris minus the ‘c’” she got the lightbulb-over-the-head look and said “oh my gawd, I _never_ realised that!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/36 "2007-12-14T19:02:06Z")
[QUOTE=Litoris] I wondered if my name would come to light. On a side note, one of my $tarbucks baristas sent me a friend request so she could check out my Thanksgiving pictures. The other day, while talking about what I am making for gifts for Christmas this year, she mentioned to another of the baristas “oh, yeh, she has a myspace page!” The other barista then asked for my name so he could look me up, and she was at a loss as to how to pronounce it. When I explained that it is “clitoris minus the ‘c’” she got the lightbulb-over-the-head look and said “oh my gawd, I _never_ realised that!” :eek: [/QUOTE] So is that clitoris pronounced: _clit-OR-us_ or _CLIT-er-iss_? I’ve always read **Gorgon Heap** as Gordon Heap. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/37 "2007-12-14T19:08:54Z")
Is McDribble still around? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/38 "2007-12-14T19:20:22Z")
> [@Argent Towers](#): > > Whenever I see Agent Foxtrot I think it’s me at first. I do the same thing. (Think he’s you, that is.) I used to think **fessie** was me, too, and in my “changed my name” thread she said she made the same mistake. > [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > My brain has always intrepreted this as Mangetrout. And mine as “Mangytrout”. Yikes. **norinew** always has been and always will be one word to me. Sorry, Norine. And I missed the Throatwarbler Mangrove joke somehow. Can someone link me to the appropriate thread or something? ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/39 "2007-12-14T19:24:36Z")
People get my name right but then they spell Gandhi’s name wrong. Sorry, Gandhi. Them’s the breaks. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-always-mis-read-even-though-you-know-what-they-are/429955/40 "2007-12-14T19:33:01Z")
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