How Shall I Address You?

My name is only pronounced properly in the popping and clicking language of the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari.

Sampiro is pronounced ‘sha SHO nee prin sess’.

I pronounce it as uh-SEAR-on but everyone else seems to pronounce it a-SIR-on with a long a, as in hate.

None of us are wholly correct as the root word, æsir, is pronounced a-SEAR, though.

Like string but with a k and an “uh” at the end.

Okay, mine’s easy. But I’ll share that Gaudere is Go-DAY-ray (not Gaw-DARE).

Li-BEE-raL? :stuck_out_tongue:

Call me brachy. Pronunciation is in the sig.

My username is pronounced foe-ten-zs*ay.

  • See Anastasaeogaboremangroveon’s post.

I know I do, but only because I used to chat a lot with someone on IRC who had a similar name (same first two syllables, I believe) which was pronounced like so.

Awesome. You got it right on the first try. You win a cookie. :smiley:

Why yes, I’ll gladly accept personal hand-delivery, thank you! How soon can you get to San Diego?

Ah, but you had precisely 14 minutes in which to claim that prize, and I see you responded in 15. Next time, read the fine print (below). I’m eating the cookie.

Besides, you’da had to pronounce it in person, too.

Fine print: All prizes given out by Anastasaeon are booby prizes. And that’s not nearly as thrilling as it sounds.

“Your Grace” will do.

No fair. I was doing my Spanish homework. I actually found your post after 13 minutes of back-breaking translation, and it took me a full two minutes to switch back into English mode. Plus, in another thread I correctly, well, wrote how to pronounce your name, and I’m pretty sure I was the first one. Our contract stipulates that you now must bake another cookie for me and not only hand-deliver it but also call my uncle to wish him a happy birthday for me, as a penalty for your failure to deliver on your original promise.

Tee Veblen.

The “T” is an initial: for Thorstein

Though I am not, in point of fact, 1. male, 2. an economist or 3. dead.

Makes it easier to understand why I usually go by Veb, huh?

Who knew? I always thought it was related to television in some way.

… it rhymes with “Maria.”

{sy-lee’-nuhs}

*Originally plural (Sileni), but later mentioned as one Silenus, the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus. A notorious consumer of wine, he is usually totally drunk and is supported by satyrs or carried by a donkey. When the Phrygian king Midas took the drunk Silenus in his house, Dionysus handsomely reward Midas for his hospitality. He has much wisdom and if captured by mortals he can reveal important secrets.

Silenus is usually portrayed as a plump jovial old man with a long beard and stump nose, bald and with a horse’s tail. *

I shaved the beard back to a goatee. :stuck_out_tongue:

Heck, even the Irish can’t make /sk/ sound like /R/.

And does that mean that when you fail to pay a debt, you are in Askiars?

That’s just mean.

Okay, okay. It off-rhymes with “Maria.”