# How the Hell does one pronounce my screenname? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2001, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674 "2001-10-16T06:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/1 "2001-10-16T06:06:36Z")
I always imagined it being “DOW-wa-jan.” My sister says it “Da-HO-wa-yan.” Who else has an unpronounceable name? ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/2 "2001-10-16T06:54:32Z")
Mine’s totally phonetic, but for the record I pronounce your name in my head as “dow-WODGE-un,” first syllable rhyming with Tao. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e56c9b/32.png) [@Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rye)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/3 "2001-10-16T07:18:48Z")
Mine’s quite difficult ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/4 "2001-10-16T08:01:34Z")
ARE-yuh? What’s difficult about that? ---
**Author:** ![Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e56c9b/32.png) [@Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rye)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/5 "2001-10-16T08:04:21Z")
It’s not that hard I guess, but Brabamatariumanism is pretty hard. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/6 "2001-10-16T08:05:02Z")
For some reason, people keep pronouncing my name as “Asshole”, “Jerk-off”, “Tubby”, and “Don Knots”. Are they stupid? Anybody can see that my name is clearly pronounced “UN-der-pants”. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/7 "2001-10-16T08:09:08Z")
I thought it was “Oops, I didn’t mean to say that…” ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/8 "2001-10-16T08:57:38Z")
Daowajan. DUH… _d&r_ ---
**Author:** ![Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e56c9b/32.png) [@Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rye)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/9 "2001-10-16T11:03:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \* > \*\* > > _d&r_ \*\* whats up with d&r? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/10 "2001-10-16T11:46:33Z")
“Ducks & runs”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/11 "2001-10-16T11:53:45Z")
I’ve always pronounced my screen name as “drag-wir”, but I’ve heard some people pronounce it “Throat-wobbler mangrove”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/12 "2001-10-16T13:14:11Z")
Mine has a cool French “u” in it… I go by Puce-ette, Pursette (courtesy of **biggirl** ), and Little Flea. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/13 "2001-10-16T13:28:57Z")
Well, unless I think about it, I pronounce it DAY jo wan. oops. BTW, mine rhymes with Miata. ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/14 "2001-10-16T13:35:06Z")
I am you-eh han. Han like solo. Daowajan… hmm… where did it come from? Did you just make it up or is it out of some other language? I tend to automatically pronounce foreign sounding words like Chinese if I don’t think about (Xena becomes Shehna\*) it which would make you T-ow-wah-jon. But I’m a mutant. –John ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/15 "2001-10-16T21:51:44Z")
Made it up. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/16 "2001-10-16T22:59:00Z")
Well, I always pronounced **thinksnow** name like thinks now, until I found out that it was supposed to be pronounced think snow. I still pronounce it thinks now, but now I feel guilty…I thinks. ---
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/17 "2001-10-16T23:13:32Z")
I’d always imagined it to be “DOW-wa-hahn”, which is fairly close to to what you’d got, but with the Spanish-y “j.” ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/18 "2001-10-16T23:20:56Z")
\<------ ghoti ---
**Author:** ![Mielikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Mielikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mielikki)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/19 "2001-10-16T23:31:56Z")
Mine’s Finnish (someone thought it was Hawaiian). I don’t speak native Suomi, or whatever, so I have no idea how it’s really supposed to be pronounced. In my head, it’s muh-LEEK-ee, but I ran into someone IRL that I’d met online, and he pronounced it ‘MY-leek-ee.’ Someone else guessed ‘MIL-lick-ee’. If I can find a real live Finnish person, I will force them to tell me. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/20 "2001-10-16T23:33:24Z")
Smells like fish in here. 🙂 I have been recently informed that the proper pronunciation of my name is “Oggrey.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674.md?page=2)