# How the Hell does one pronounce my screenname?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/21 "2001-10-17T01:47:38Z")

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**Scylla** , to me, is “Sky-la.” I don’t care that people insist it’s “Sil-la.”

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/22 "2001-10-17T01:59:18Z")

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Mine can be a bit of a conundrum… 😉

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**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/23 "2001-10-17T02:39:44Z")

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no it’s not…at least not to me. Shi-BO-leth. It works. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/24 "2001-10-17T02:53:37Z")

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ShibbOleth writes, \<\<Mine can be a bit of a conundrum…\>\>

Sibboleth!

…now who are these guys with the weapons sneaking up behind me…

Corr

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**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/25 "2001-10-17T03:08:20Z")

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Easy.

M-ah-ee

Sss-kuh-reen-aim.

😃

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**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-hell-does-one-pronounce-my-screenname/87674/26 "2001-10-17T04:36:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by thinksnow \*  
> \*\ ***Scylla** , to me, is “Sky-la.” I don’t care that people insist it’s “Sil-la.” \*\*

::blink:: Really? I’ve always thought “sky-la”, too. And because of that I didn’t catch on at first that Scylla was a guy, cos doesn’t “Sky-la” sound so girly?

And I say “DA-wo-gin” even though that doesn’t even vaguely correspond tothe actual letters in Daowajan’s name. ::shrug::

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