Correct - it is pronounced “es-PREE,” as in “esprit de corps.” Rhymes with ennui. 
Esprix
Some might have thought it meant “S”(-shaped) pricks…
Since several of the people I’ve met IRL wasn’t sure how to pronounce my name, it’s
zee-AH-duh
Rhymes with Miata
And here I thought it was ESPR IX, pronounced “esper-nine.” Like you were the ninth in a group of people with paranormal powers.
(Somebody call UPN and the ghost of Gene Roddenberry…we have a new Star Trek franchise on our hands here!)
You could even play yourself, Essie baby…I hear you have a Starfleet uniform already.
By the way, more people than you might suspect seem to think my handle is CHIEF Troy - sort of the converse of that candy-bar commercial with the guy who’s just finished dyeing the grass in the end zone of a K.C football team, only to be asked, “Nice work… but who are the Chefs?”
Believe me folks, I am neither a Native American leader nor a naval officer. (granted, I’m not a professional chef either, but that’s irrelevant.)
Two, actually, with a pattern for another, plans for altering one to make another interchangably, and further plans to develop even another based on last week’s “Voyager” episode.
Did I also mention I own four kilts?
Esprix
Count me in for :
SEAL A MON (like Pokemon)
Missed SueDunhym, thought it was her name.
And Racinchikki becomes “Raison-chichi”, I can’t even begin to explain that…
Anthracite reminded me of arachnid, until I met “Spiderwoman”!
And just to be sure everyone knows…
dragonLADY is female. And I don’t care if you capitalize it or not.
I wavered back and forth on Sealemon. Sometimes it looked like ‘Sea Lemon’ and others it looked kinda French, ‘Sea le Mon’. (Yeah, right, like I can speak French, I can’t even speak American very well.)
By the way, my name is pronounced ‘Jim’, the ending ‘B’ is silent. Actually it’s usually pronounced like ‘GM’ (GEE-em).
Jim
… and for the first time in my life, I’ve actually been mentioned more than once in a “Posters Who …” thread. I’m transported with delight … I think.
OK, super, now that it’s been put out there, I feel like a complete idiot. I really need to learn to think before I post. Jeezoman…
Hey!
bibliophage was the one that confused me.
for the longest time, I thought it was bibliopage (like ‘book leaf’)
then I saw -phage and thought, okay, “books spinning around”
oh, then realized today it was -phage, not -fuge.
‘book eater’
Clever bibliophage
Silly me.
Count me in with the idiots who didn’t get Sue Duhnym. Geez, what an jerk. I can’t believe I didn’t get that. I thought it was her (his?) name, too. It seems soooo obvious now.
And Sea-Lemon. Oh, okay. It’s not a lemon in the ocean.
Rundogrun…I saw Rundgren, too.
Me, too!
brachyrynchos…I see a dinosaur, Brachyosaurus (sp?)
THespos…The Spooz
iampunha…I Am Poon Ha…whatever that is supposed to mean.
racinchickki…reminds me of that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi story with the mongoose and the snake. Racing Chicky, oh, ok.
sk8rixtx…another one who saw “Skater Tricks”
Ok, that’s enough. I’ll quit before I insult any more Dopers.
sk8rixtx= skate tricks tx.
That only took me a week to pronounce correctly.