# Poster names you got wrong... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406 "2000-10-18T15:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/41 "2000-10-19T07:01:48Z")
**Kilt-wearin’ man** , I like your sig. This female pronounces brachyrhynchos as: brach-ee-rink-os (as **kiffa** notes, brach sounds like rat and an equal emphasis on all syllables). **evilbeth** , I too saw Rundgren for **rundogrun**. I am definitely getting a bigger monitor (that’s my disclaimer and I’m sticking with it). ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/42 "2000-10-19T07:06:10Z")
Why, thank you Brachy. It used to be “A man in a kilt is a man and a half” but on reflection that sounded a little too insecure. I was greatly amused when I saw it on a kiltmaker’s sign at a Scottish Festival a few years ago. My current sig I came up with on my own, because I’ve had to answer the question a few times and it took two or three before I came up with a witty answer. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2000, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/43 "2000-10-19T08:47:44Z")
I got sk8rixtx’s name wrong. In my head, it was “sk8rtrix”, as in “skater tricks”. Oops. So sorry, sk8rixtx. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/44 "2000-10-19T16:12:05Z")
I too thought **rundogrun** was “rundo grun” and that **mangeorge** was “mange orange”. Also, **racinchikki** has always been “rain chikki” to me and I wondered what that meant. Another one: **Drain Bead**. I get that it’s a play on Brain Dead, but do I read it as “Drain Bed” or “Drain Beed”? And if **sk8rtrix** isn’t “skater tricks”, than what _is_ it? Also, I’m very happy to know I’m not alone here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/45 "2000-10-19T18:26:56Z")
Yow! Count me in as one who didn’t get the **Sue Duhnym** gag. I pronounce **canthearya** as “Can-Theeria” and I always think of her as an exotic plant (though I know the real meaning). **Drain Bead** frequently comes out “Drain Bea **r** d” in my brain. I suspect **G. Nome** is short for “Gee, there’s nobody home!” You can pronounce my name any damn way you please - as long as it’s **not** followed by “is a big fathead.” ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/46 "2000-10-19T19:10:21Z")
I always say your name as “Ah-sah-mai-oh”, aseymayo. Yeah, what in the hell _is_ sk8rxtx’s name anyway? I thought G.nome was genome? ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/47 "2000-10-19T19:10:58Z")
Count me in as another poster who is completely confused about the pronunciation of “iampunha”. I read it as “I am pun. Ha!” As far as my own name: The irony is that that nickname is a running joke used by my best friend to make fun of my last name, which has ambiguous pronunciation possibilities. aseymayo: I’m glad you said that, becasue I really had no idea how to pronounce it. It just kind of slides through my head as “Japenese Mayo”. A couple of others I have trouble with are Nickrz (He’s gone now, I assume), racinchikki (Makes me think of a mongoose :)), struuter,…and Fretful Porpentine. I had to not only read Kyla’s post here twice, I had to do my own name search to verify that that was how to spell his/her name. How embarrasing! ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/48 "2000-10-19T19:13:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aseymayo \* > You can pronounce my name any damn way you please - as long as it’s **not** followed by “is a big fathead.” \*\* Whew! That’s a relief, Assy Mayo. I was afraid to speak to you! 😉 Jaime. Not donald. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/49 "2000-10-19T21:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by THespos \* > \*\*For the record, you pronounce my SDMB name “Tee Hess Pose” and not “The Spoze.” > \*\* I always pronounced your name as one one word… Thespos. I figured it was your whacky form of “Thespian”. “I was ACTing!” - J. Lovetz ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/50 "2000-10-19T21:12:00Z")
I’m totally dyslexic on this one. I guess I’m the only one that pronounces it like: I am Humpina. I never got Sue’s until this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/51 "2000-10-19T21:44:33Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Sealemon88 \* > \*\* racinchikki (Makes me think of a mongoose :))_\* Now that you mention it, that’s what I thought the fist time I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/52 "2000-10-19T22:03:07Z")
**sk8rixtx** = skate-riks-tex ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/53 "2000-10-19T22:13:21Z")
\*\* Ike \*\* count me in on the ones who read the one thread as “Designated Hitler”. Imagine my surprise when I opened to find baseball stats. Go figure. I got confused by all the “bunny” names (missbunny, 3bunnymama and there’s at least one or two others). I was back and forthing on two different threads with 2 of 'em and kept thinking that it was only one. OF course, bunnies, \*\* do \*\* multiply tho… ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/54 "2000-10-19T23:59:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don Jaime \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by aseymayo \* > > You can pronounce my name any damn way you please - as long as it’s **not** followed by “is a big fathead.” \*\* > > Whew! That’s a relief, Assy Mayo. I was afraid to speak to you! 😉 > > Jaime. Not donald. \*\* This just killed me.That is one of the funniest things I have ever read. I was laughing so hard my kids came up to me scared cuz Mommy was choking on her tea and spitting on the keyboard. Just had to let that be known But, I always have problems with the names around here. I guess half the time I don’t really pay attention and just peek so I see Fretful Porcupine, Seal-E-Man ( which I thought had something to do with seals and electronics for some reason) Iampunha to me is I am Punhama…I add the M all by myself but it flows so well. So I guess my problem is not paying enough attention…forgive me. BTW MamaHen is pronounced…I WANT YOU SO BAD! ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/55 "2000-10-20T00:48:47Z")
It was always Seal A(long a) Mon, as in a pokemon… My name is pronounced Speaker for the Dead, if any of you mixed it up… Oh yeah, and I’m a guy… ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/56 "2000-10-20T00:58:52Z")
Guilty: Sealemon - Never had a clue til now Fretful porcupine Designated Hitler iampunha and MamaHen, for one fleeting instant, you became our beloved moderator manhatten:D But Sue Dunhym… COME ON, people!! ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/57 "2000-10-20T04:06:25Z")
Yes, I’m in the group that didn’t get **Sue Dunhym** ’s name until now. I also read **racinchikki** as rain chikki. What’s worse is that I have a tendency to sometimes misread my own name as Serenity. And sometimes I’ll see the word “serenity” written somewhere else and will read it as “serendipity.” Bizarre. How am I supposed to pronounce **Esprix**? I always hear it in my head as “esprit,” but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it’s intended to sound. ---
**Author:** ![Palmyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@Palmyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palmyra)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/58 "2000-10-20T04:23:40Z")
Truthfully, the first time i read it, i thought it was “impahuna”… which makes no sense either. then it turned into “iamphuna”… finally got the damn name right three weeks ago. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2000, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/59 "2000-10-20T11:28:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kilt-wearin’ man \* > \*\*I didn’t think there was a problem, till I read this list and the names of you folks who are posting on it! I have no idea how to pronounce: > > brachyrhynchos > imthjckaz > ignoscop > THespos (thought maybe it was a play on “thespian”) > Suo Na > > Makes my head spin. As for gender, well, a few of us have obvious gender-specific names, but the rest of you I just try to take in context of what you say. > > Makes my head hurt sometimes.\*\* Well Kilt-wearin’ man, I don’t know about the rest but mine is an acronym, Idiot Making Tasteless Humorous(?) Juvenile Comments Kausing (sumtines i dun spel 2 gid) Ass Zits As for its pronuncian, you say just as you see it; I’m the jackass.😃 \*\* [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406/60 "2000-10-20T13:19:42Z")
> [@](#): > > How am I supposed to pronounce Esprix? I always hear it in my head as “esprit,” but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it’s intended to sound. Probably a smart-ass who took French in school:D. In French, the “x” in _prix_ (price) is silent and the word is pronounced as the “pri” in _esprit_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-names-you-got-wrong/37406.md?page=4)