# Doper names you have mispronounced. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368 "2002-04-18T19:24:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/41 "2002-04-19T14:01:17Z")
It’s not so much a mispronounciation, but I’ve always thought of **Why A Duck** as the bastard offspring of **Duck Duck Goose** and [Y. A. Tittle](http://www.yatittle.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/42 "2002-04-19T14:04:10Z")
Shhh! No-one is supposed to know. And who you calling bastard? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/43 "2002-04-19T14:16:05Z")
So when is **iampunha** going to get on here and tell us how to pronouce his name? Otherwise I’m going to keep saying “I am Pahuna! The big big KAHUNA!” every time I see his name. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/44 "2002-04-19T15:02:43Z")
Bah. I think even if he told you, you’d _still_ say that. Old habits die hard. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/45 "2002-04-19T15:26:36Z")
**Scotti** , I’m quite pleased with myself, because that’s how I’ve been pronouncing your name all this time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hobgnoblin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hobgnoblin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hobgnoblin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/46 "2002-04-19T16:49:52Z")
[hijack]I’ve been lurking here for a long time, but as Admin for another (very busy) board, I’ve hesitated in posting because I knew I’d be sucked in. Long story short, I’m sick of politics, so that gig is up, and here I am looking forward to making some new friends.[/hijack] [/blatant sucking-up] Every time I see **Yo La Tengo** , I _hear_ Yo L_o_ Teng_a_ (never quite got that gender thing down), and **CrankyAsAnOldMan** forever looked like CrankyAssOldMan to me, too. **hajario** looks like ha-HA-rio to me, which invariably starts Phil Collins’ _Sussudio_ running through my head. (Feel free to sing along. :)) ---
**Author:** ![eirroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@eirroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eirroc)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/47 "2002-04-19T18:35:42Z")
I always pronounced my screename eirroc as eerock, but my son ( who’s name is corrie, eirroc backwards, where I got it from) recently told me "hey my name backwards is “I rock”, now I’m paranoid that people think I am full of myself. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/48 "2002-04-19T20:11:23Z")
I always read it as “I Rock”, and it never made me think you were full of yourself. I have always thought it was clever. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/49 "2002-04-19T21:31:02Z")
Why do you think I sign my posts as “Pete,” besides the fact that it’s my name? My screen name follows the standard Unix convention: first initial followed by up to seven letters of the operator’s last name: whence “psiekier.” I’d never really thought about how to pronounce it, since I usually end up spelling my last name for everybody anyway - either that, or just getting them to call me “Pete.” A coworker of mine from long ago figured it was meant to be pronounced like the Psi-corps of TV’s _Babylon 5_, but since I didn’t watch that show, that really couldn’t be it. One night, I sent an Instant Message to a friend of mine from high school; it turns out it’s not him, but his niece using the Internet that night. He was surprised when his niece reported that some person named “Pee-Seeker” wanted to chat with him. :eek: Even if that’s an awful pronunciation, the story is funny enough to be worth retelling, hence “Pee-Seeker” is now the official pronunciation of “psiekier.” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/50 "2002-04-19T22:05:02Z")
Sorry for showing up so late, guys; I was at work yesterday from 11 AM until I got home at 1:30 (car broke down) and I’ve been sleeping since. Hokay. Firstly, those of you pronouncing the “nh” as “y” from Portugese are in some good company. Kyla tells me she did that back when she was in her Portugese “ethnicities” or “ethnographies” or whatever class it was that she took. Good company, in this case, is wrong company. Now, here it might help to know the derivation of the name, which I’ll give you AGAIN:) When I was very young I had a Paddington Bear. Now, being very young has this effect on one’s ability to pronounce words such as Paddington and supercilious and vitamegavitamin and … stuff like that. So instead of saying Paddington I said punha. And I said it like this: p’n-ha. The U is a grace note of sorts, for those of you who know what those are. The U is almost not pronounced for those of you who don’t know what one (grace-note, not U) is. The first syllable is stressed ever so much less than the second. Think of a slightly southern pronunciation of “down-wind” and you’ll mostly have the accentedness down. Zoom forward to fall of 1999. I got me a new email account and “[punha@netscape.net](mailto:punha@netscape.net)” was taken, so I went with “iampunha”, or “I am punha”. As in “I am paddington bear”. Notes: The U is not long. Despite what **Weirddave** (who’s got the most obvious screen name since **Cecil Adams** ) may tell you, the U is not long. But it doesn’t really matter, any of it, because you can call me by my real name! It’s like someone said at **Chidope** when … er … someone else (screw memory. Faking it is so much more fun!) asked me how I pronounce my username. After I went through the explanation there AGAIN, the first someone said “Or you can just call him Patrick. Much easier”. I want to say that person was **Geobabe** but I don’t recall seeing her Friday night. Okay. Now for **Gaudere** ’s SN … (this is gonna get me booted from the l33t cl!qu3 for sure…). There is a verb in Latin which in English means “to rejoice/be grateful/celebrate/such things”. Gaudere is that verb! And here’s how to pronounce it: Gow (as in “cow” but with a hard G) dare (as in, duh) eh. Last two syllables are slurred together to produce gow-Daray. Second syllable (the Dare part of it) is accented. Third syllable is accented more than first. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/51 "2002-04-19T22:18:18Z")
Well, it finally happened. I typed in a reply in the quick reply box, then hit “post reply” instead of “Submit Reply”–all gone. OK. Again. I have long read “ **eirroc** ” from right to left, as “corrie.” I don’t remember what I first thought, but I must’ve been tipped off, or caught on, pretty quick. After reading her (?) post, I actually looked at her alias forwards, & now it looks, not like “corrie,” but like it should be pronounced “ey-rrok” (possibly with a trilled “rr”). Annoying. Oh, wait, it’s going back to normal. OK. Now, I have always assumed that Corrie was **eirroc** ’s name, & that it was feminine, like Dutch Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom. That it’s her (Scots) _son’s_ name surprised me. And “ **Scotticher** ” is _obviously_ pronounced “Skott-itch-er” w/ primary accent on the first syllable & secondary stress on the last. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/52 "2002-04-19T23:04:05Z")
**chique** , is one that I’m not sure about. Is it chick? Sheekay? rsandy? I’ve asked her before, and she said it didn’t matter how you say it. Chique that is, not _it_. ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/53 "2002-04-19T23:26:01Z")
If anyone’s wondering, Leif is pronounced Lafe, long “a” sound. I have to tell this at the doctor’s every time. Like neighbor, sleigh, reign, weight. I have no idea why teachers tell children that “Leaf” Erikson was the son of Erik the Red. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/54 "2002-04-19T23:45:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by imthjckaz \* > \*\ ***chique** , is one that I’m not sure about. > > Is it chick? > > Sheekay? > > rsandy? > > I’ve asked her before, and she said it didn’t matter how you say it. > > Chique that is, not _it_. \*\* It’s “Sheek”, darling. Like “sleek” (as in slinky and classy, not like “sneak” but similar to “speak.”) And don’t ever let anyone tell you differently. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/55 "2002-04-19T23:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by foolsguinea \* > \*\* “ **Scotticher** ” is _obviously_ pronounced “Skott-itch-er” w/ primary accent on the first syllable & secondary stress on the last. 😉 \*\* Well, now you have me itching, dear. Please see my previous post on the matter before you give me a rash. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/56 "2002-04-20T00:18:57Z")
It took me a disturbingly long time to realize that **rundogrun** was **run dog run** rather than **rundo grun**. Actually, I can’t believe I’m even admitting to it. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/57 "2002-04-20T00:29:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sue Duhnym \* > \*\*It took me a disturbingly long time to realize that **rundogrun** was **run dog run** rather than **rundo grun**. > > Actually, I can’t believe I’m even admitting to it. \*\* Whoa. I never figured that out before! I always said Rundo Grun too, and thought of the running of the grunion. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/58 "2002-04-20T01:26:11Z")
**rundogrun** ISN’T Rundo Grun? OOPS! ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/59 "2002-04-20T03:24:58Z")
Wait, you mean you thought it was Rundo Grun? I thought it was Rund Ogrun. Bah. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368/60 "2002-04-20T17:33:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Notes: The U is not long. Despite what Weirddave (who’s got the most obvious screen name since Cecil Adams) may tell you, the U is not long. Shit, Pun, it’s only your name, what do you know? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-names-you-have-mispronounced/104368.md?page=4)