# 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:** 11
**Author:** ![erleichda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@erleichda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erleichda)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/201 "2008-05-29T01:17:26Z")
Mine is also from a book, but I pronounce it air-like-duh. Emphasis on the second syllable. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/202 "2008-05-29T01:20:43Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Oops. I’d always been thinking it was pronounced “Drain Bed.” [/QUOTE] Ditto. I figured it was a play on “brain dead,” which was amusing and made some sense. The other way, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Daljo628](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@Daljo628](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daljo628)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/203 "2008-05-29T01:24:28Z")
Dal-joe (Dal rhymes with Pal … as in ‘Hey pal … got a light?’) (the ‘628’ is silent.) ---
**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 29, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/204 "2008-05-29T01:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Ditto. I figured it was a play on “brain dead,” which was amusing and made some sense. The other way, not so much. [/QUOTE] It is, but it’s an inside joke from the 9th grade with a long backstory that I’ve mostly forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/205 "2008-05-29T01:45:23Z")
Mine works best if you sing it: “Martha my dear, though I spend my days in conversation, please remember me…” ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/206 "2008-05-29T01:46:27Z")
Lee-koh. It’s spelled like the ellipsoidal reflectors, except it has a superfluous i. (I am no stranger to superfluous letters; the only vowel sound in my last name is “e” but it’s spelled with a “ue.”) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/207 "2008-05-29T02:24:18Z")
Gua-Nola-D No, not really. It’s “batshit-boy”: “Guano Lad”. By the way, it’s Throat **wobbler** Mangrove, not [Throatwarbler](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehKGlT2EW1Q). ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/208 "2008-05-29T03:17:57Z")
See 'em? Why… ¿Qué? ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/209 "2008-05-29T05:34:41Z")
Mine is pronounced “BWAHAHAHAhahaha!!!” while wearing a satan suit. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/210 "2008-05-29T06:38:45Z")
[QUOTE=sandra\_nz] _sandra en zed_ (Lose 10 points if you thought it was _sandra en zee_) [/QUOTE] And gain ten if you pronounce it _unzud_. 😃 Just kidding, cuz. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/211 "2008-05-29T07:15:32Z")
Most of the kids around here have affectionately nicknamed me **beebs**. I like it. Don’t worry about pronouncing it _bee-bee-ess-too-kay_. It’s just an abbreviation of my longer, more annoying, and original screen name: **bluebabysyndrome2000** ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/212 "2008-05-29T07:26:08Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] As such (second song). [/QUOTE] Your link won’t work for me - is it like the Eddie Murphy skit on SNL - “Wookin Pa Nub in all the wrong places, wookin pa nub…?” Joe ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/213 "2008-05-29T08:42:53Z")
Ale, short for Alejandro (actual name), as in _Allegory_ or try to say the French _“allez!”_ but with the accent on the A rather than the E. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/214 "2008-05-29T11:16:00Z")
[QUOTE=Martha Medea] Mine works best if you sing it: “Martha my dear, though I spend my days in conversation, please remember me…” [/QUOTE] That’s an earworm I’ll enjoy for the rest of the day. Along with - [QUOTE=Ale] Ale, short for Alejandro (actual name), as in Allegory or try to say the French “allez!” but with the accent on the A rather than the E. [/QUOTE] “I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me, you can call me Allez” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/215 "2008-05-29T11:30:09Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] It’s just an abbreviation of my longer, more annoying, and original screen name: **bluebabysyndrome2000** [/QUOTE] Is that really what is was? Why did I think it was “ **Bigbabysweets2000** ”? Huh. Mine’s pretty straightforward- you pronounce it “Hey, there cutie” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/216 "2008-05-29T12:01:07Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] Is that really what is was? Why did I think it was “ **Bigbabysweets2000** ”? Huh. Mine’s pretty straightforward- you pronounce it “Hey, there cutie” 🙂 [/QUOTE] He’s fibbing, **Soapy**. You were correct. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/217 "2008-05-29T12:48:39Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Color me 😕 I see your name and think to pronounce it Kah/reechee or Kah/reesee, not Kah/deech. Wherefrom the deech? I know someone with Ricci as a last name, and it’s Reesee… 😕 [/QUOTE] It looks like an Italian pronunciation to me–the R sound is a quick tap of the roof of your mouth behind your front teeth, rather than an “rrr” sound, see? The final I sound is truncated, like when your mom makes _manicot-_ for dinner, or when you forgot to stop at the deli and pick up the _prosciut-_. 😉 Mine is na-ja niv-ae-uh, as in the [highly venomous elapid](http://www.kingsnake.com/elapids/cape_cobra.htm) and not the el-cheapo skin care products or the bizarre celebrity/trailer park baby name du jour. It’s generally shortened to “Niv” in my other online communities, but 'round these parts, Dopers seem prone to using “Naja”. I don’t mind, except that occasionally folks will see it and think I’m **Nava**! ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/218 "2008-05-29T12:49:32Z")
Mines pretty obvious. But to save time, it’d be no problem to just call me **Sunshine** or **S & S**. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/219 "2008-05-29T12:59:18Z")
Umm… interface … 2 … ex. You can even keep the pauses for dramatic effect, if you like. It’s not interface two times. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/220 "2008-05-29T13:14:46Z")
[QUOTE=Always Brings Pie] He’s fibbing, **Soapy**. You were correct. 😃 [/QUOTE] People need to learn to not mess with my reality. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=12)