# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/41 "2008-05-27T20:12:08Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Ah-TAH-La-cuss/(kiss is acceptable also) Everyone says Auto-Lie-kiss, but they would be el-wrongo! [/QUOTE] I have been saying and reading your name as “Autocyclus” for years and just now noticed that was wrong. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/42 "2008-05-27T20:14:40Z")
sir ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/43 "2008-05-27T20:22:18Z")
DAY-er-lin (short ‘i’ sound). ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/44 "2008-05-27T20:22:49Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth] Blow a raspberry (by which I mean actually go through the act of sticking out your tongue and blowing to create a raspberry or zrbt kind of sound.) That is the pronounciation of **pbbth**. [/QUOTE] Yay! I pronounced a screen name correctly for once! Thanks, **pbbth**. (Oh, mine. That would be mad pan-zee sicks-tee for.) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/45 "2008-05-27T20:23:24Z")
Frönk-fhur-tur … or, if you prefer, just plain ol’ Lu. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/46 "2008-05-27T20:23:46Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Everyone says Auto-Lie-kiss, but they would be el-wrongo! [/QUOTE] Except for those of us who watched Xena. I don’t really need to do mine, do I? Silver Tiger Girl, just like the dictionary says. S’kat (scat) is also acceptable, as a nickname for Silvercat. =^.^= ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/47 "2008-05-27T20:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] Throatwarbler Mangrove you knew _somebody_ was going to do it [/QUOTE] Crap, beat me to it! Mine is pronounced as if Darth Vader were breathing it: SUHN-ra-zah Well, not really, but try it, it’s fun! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/48 "2008-05-27T20:30:52Z")
Doh-lor’-us Ree’-born (not Dee-lor-us!) ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/49 "2008-05-27T20:41:51Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl] S’kat (scat) is also acceptable, as a nickname for Silvercat. =^.^= [/QUOTE] You REALLY don’t want people refering to you in such a way, most importantly on the intarwebs. No. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/50 "2008-05-27T20:44:18Z")
Derelict. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/51 "2008-05-27T20:48:54Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Ah-TAH-La-cuss/(kiss is acceptable also) > > Everyone says Auto-Lie-kiss, but they would be el-wrongo! > [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > Except for those of us who watched Xena. Your memory must have played a trick on you. [This clip from Xena](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1KTArPHI4) clearly shows the pronunciation is Ah-TAH-la-kiss. It’s probably different from the original Greek, but since my screen-name is mostly based on Bruce Campbell, that’s how I call myself. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/52 "2008-05-27T20:49:28Z")
STERN (like the back of a boat) vogue-'l (rhymes with “mogul”) ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/53 "2008-05-27T20:50:57Z")
Shvake [IPA: ˈʃvɛjk] ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/54 "2008-05-27T20:54:58Z")
I really don’t think my name is too hard to pronounce, but… O tah coo low key, and I generally have the emphasis on the first syllable. [QUOTE=Cluricaun] You REALLY don’t want people refering to you in such a way, most importantly on the intarwebs. No. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Thank you for saying that. **Silver Tyger Girl** , I really second this advice. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/55 "2008-05-27T21:00:08Z")
Sabbath. The E is silent. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/56 "2008-05-27T21:01:18Z")
Brenda. My parents had a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/57 "2008-05-27T21:04:35Z")
Sun speiss. 🙂 [QUOTE=Anaamika] aNAAmika, with the two a’s representing a long a. Some people say it "AnaMIKa, making the a’s short…which is cool by me, but not correct, since you ask. Think of it as two words, really "AnAAM’ which means "without a name, and “ika”, which basically comes out to be “she”. (Not 100% true, but close enough.) She without a name. Anonymous. [/QUOTE] Wow. That’s completely different that what I expected. But then I might have been confused by that fact that it means “Friendly Ana” in Esperanto (_Ana amika_). I pronounced it in my head with five syllables, separating the two a’s. And **An Gadaí**? I thought of it as “Ann Gah-DIE”, with the accent on the í transferring the stress to it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/58 "2008-05-27T21:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=Brynda] Brenda. My parents had a sense of humor. [/QUOTE] It’s not pronounced "brin-dah’? ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/59 "2008-05-27T21:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I have been saying and reading your name as “Autocyclus” for years and just now noticed that was wrong. :smack: [/QUOTE] My brain pronounces it “Autolicious”. Mmm, delicious autos. With the Spanish, mine’s sort of like “bee-dee-deeana,” but not exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789/60 "2008-05-27T21:28:48Z")
Pretty much as spelled: Cloth-ah-hump, accent on first syllable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-pronounce-your-screen-name-please/450789.md?page=4)