# Will you pronounce your screen name please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789 "2008-05-27T17:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/181 "2008-05-28T21:23:40Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] I’ve been saying Sat-TO-ah [/QUOTE] Yeah. The spelling I used is the less common one. It’s also written “sattva”. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/182 "2008-05-28T21:42:35Z")
Incase someone hasn’t figured it out yet… Bats - in - ma - Belfry. I used “ma” instead of “my” because I thought “Batsinmy” looked like it should be pronounced with a short “y”. This thread makes me feel like an idiot. I’ve been misreading most of the usernames. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/183 "2008-05-28T21:43:55Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I thought he named himself after the [singer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_for_Fighting). [/QUOTE] I did name myself after him. I was just (humorously?) giving the pronunciation and simply stopped at explaining how the words fit together. He got it from the penalty-phrase too. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/184 "2008-05-28T22:25:20Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] I’ve always mentally said it like the Elvis song - you’re never just “viva lost wages”, but “Viva… lost wages!” [/QUOTE] Well, that’s cool…I like being sung about. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/185 "2008-05-28T22:29:08Z")
kiz-arr-VEX-ee-us (Not quite as pretentious as it sounds) ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/186 "2008-05-28T22:40:03Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] kiz-arr-VEX-ee-us [/QUOTE] You’re about the first person I had correct. I keep waiting for **Jodi** to come back and tell us it should be pronounced jah-DYE or something. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/187 "2008-05-28T23:06:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] Yeah. The spelling I used is the less common one. It’s also written “sattva”. [/QUOTE] I was saying Saa-Chew-Ah! Waay off. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/188 "2008-05-28T23:10:14Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] “On gaudy” [/QUOTE] “They say the neon lights are bright, on gaudy…” Mine’s obvious. If you like, you can sing it. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/189 "2008-05-28T23:10:32Z")
RAH suh [Sanskrit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_%28theology%29), not Spanish or Latin! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/190 "2008-05-28T23:11:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] Yeah. The spelling I used is the less common one. It’s also written “sattva”. [/QUOTE] The highest _guna!_ ---
**Author:** ![Her\_Royal\_IMFness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@Her\_Royal\_IMFness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Her_Royal_IMFness)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/191 "2008-05-28T23:20:51Z")
I doubt mine is too hard, but for the Hades of it, the “IMF” portion is pronounced like imp, but with an “f” instead of the “p” at the end… (Or, to take a longer route, “Her Royal Incredible Missing Friend-ness” would do as well.) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/192 "2008-05-28T23:26:55Z")
[QUOTE=Rasa] The highest _guna!_ [/QUOTE] I was about to say, give that girl a prize… when I realized that I don’t know your gender. Oops! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/193 "2008-05-28T23:28:53Z")
Pronounced like the respective words are pronounced. Drain. Bead. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/194 "2008-05-28T23:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Can’t let this one pass without acknowledgment: I LOL’d. [/QUOTE] +1 laugh thanks for the morning giggle. oho thren-oh-dee-ain-jel-fie-yuh 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/195 "2008-05-29T00:02:44Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] I thought the real Roland pronounced it “Orthabl”. _A Darkness At Sethanon_? [/QUOTE] Nope … _The Mammoth Hunters_. What can I say … I was 16 when I picked it as my username for damned near everything. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/196 "2008-05-29T00:13:17Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] a **z** ure. [/QUOTE] Cor blimey, yet another word the Americans pronounce wrong 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/197 "2008-05-29T00:39:30Z")
“storm-hawk” or “stərm-hawk”. Some people say “stərm-haOOK”, but that’s just silly. See, stormhawk was the original spelling, back in the BBS days. I took the name from a Star Destroyer in one of the Heir to the Empire books. Once the modern Internet got going, there were several other stormhawks about. I was into heavy metal at the time, so I went with a pseudo-German misspelling, not really thinking about the pronunciation. It just kinda stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/198 "2008-05-29T00:42:44Z")
Rye-sto Long i, short o. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/199 "2008-05-29T00:46:06Z")
Lev drakon, pronounced by Americans would come out about the same way you’d say “lev bacon.” If you want to be proper, say it like lyev draKONE. Say it like a good Russian. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/200 "2008-05-29T01:04:30Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead] Pronounced like the respective words are pronounced. Drain. Bead. [/QUOTE] Oops. I’d always been thinking it was pronounced “Drain Bed.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=11)